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  2. Wessex - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886. [2] The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse, though this is considered by some to ...

  3. Thomas Hardy's Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Locations in Wessex, from The Wessex of Thomas Hardy by Bertram Windle, 1902, based on correspondence with Hardy. Thomas Hardy's Wessex is the fictional literary landscape created by the English author Thomas Hardy as the setting for his major novels, [1] located in the south and southwest of England. [2]

  4. Template:Wessex Main Line diagram - Wikipedia

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    This is a route-map template for the Wessex Main Line, a UK railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.

  5. Burghal Hidage - Wikipedia

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    A map of places named in the Burghal Hidage. The Burghal Hidage (/ ˈ b ɜːr ɡ əl ˈ h aɪ d ɪ dʒ /) is an Anglo-Saxon document providing a list of over thirty fortified places (), the majority being in the ancient Kingdom of Wessex, and the taxes (recorded as numbers of hides) assigned for their maintenance. [1]

  6. Heptarchy - Wikipedia

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    The map annotates the names of the peoples of Essex and Sussex taken into the Kingdom of Wessex, which later took in the Kingdom of Kent and became the senior dynasty, and the outlier kingdoms. From Bartholomew's A literary & historical atlas of Europe (1914)

  7. Historical and alternative regions of England - Wikipedia

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    The kingdoms were eventually united into the Kingdom of England in a process beginning with Egbert of Wessex in 829 and completed by King Edred in 954. The Norse kingdom of Jorvik , also known as Scandinavian Yorkshire was not annexed into England until 1066 and the Royal Harrying of the North.

  8. Wessex Main Line - Wikipedia

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    The Wessex Main Line is the railway line from Bristol Temple Meads to Southampton Central. [1] Diverging from this route is the Heart of Wessex Line from Westbury to Weymouth . The Wessex Main Line intersects the Reading to Taunton Line at Westbury and the West of England Main Line at Salisbury .

  9. West of England line - Wikipedia

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    The West of England line (also known as the West of England Main Line) is a British railway line from Basingstoke, Hampshire, to Exeter St Davids in Devon, England.. Passenger services run between London Waterloo station and Exeter; the line intersects with the Wessex Main Line at