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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Iglea, or Iley. The dis-tance from that place to Danes Bottom, by theshortest road, is not more than twenty miles. Theprobable route of the Anglo-Saxon army must havebeen northward till the troops reached the Foss-way, perhaps a little beyond Norton, and after pro-ceeding along that road to Long Newnton, they di-verged north westward, across Tetbury Warren, nowinclosed, pursuing their course to the valley of Aven-ing. This village is situated in a hollow, between twosteep hills ; and the Saxons may probably have en-countered the out-posts of the Danes at Avening, orelse on the hill beyond it, which divides the valley ofAvening from Woeful Danes Bottom, the descent towhich is but inconsiderable, and on the rising ground * Vide Lysons Magna Britannia, v. i., pt. ii., Berkshire,p. 162. further north-west is the supposed Danish camp ofEthandun. Danish Camp on Hampton Common ,^>° >ss* ^HUUUHWle^ ^%^ „5 IMineliuihamptonTownJuj ^ty^ o .-* Tumulus Ws^s j ^ ••> Avening + P^C^X
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A glance at the annexed map will show the rela-tive situations of the first and second of Alfreds en-campments, of Woeful Danes Bottom, and of the ex-isting mound near it, whence it will be perceived thatadmitting Ethandun to have been the hill or opendown, called Hampton Common, at the foot of whichDanes Bottom lies, the march of Alfred towards thisplace, and the subsequent battle, as described byAsser, are perfectly consistent with the whole of thecircumstances reported by that historian, who livedAvhen the transaction took place. 110 THE GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR. Hampton Common is thus mentioned by one of thelatest Gloucestershire historians. Amberley is a large tract of common of pasture,on the west side of the town (of Minchinhampton,)containing- about 1000 acres, given, as it is said, byDame Alice Hampton, to poor housekeepers residentin the parish. It is the site of a large and remarkableentrenchment. The great vallum is irregular, withsmaller trenches branching from it. Commencing

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