Battle between West Saxon and Danish Vikings in 871
Battle of Ashdown
Part of the Viking invasions of England
A nineteenth-century depiction of the Battle of Ashdown.[1]
Date
c. 8 January 871
Location
Berkshire
Result
West Saxon Victory
Belligerents
West Saxons
Vikings
Commanders and leaders
Æthelred Alfred
Bagsecg † Halfdan Sidroc the Old † Sidroc the Younger † Osbern † Fræna † Harold †
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Viking invasions of England
Lindisfarne
Hingston Down
Great Heathen Army (865–78)
Alcea
York
Englefield
Reading
Ashdown
Basing
Meretun
Chippenham
Edington/Ethandun
Cynwit
The Danelaw (865–954)
Rochester
Farnham
Buttington
First Stamford
Benfleet
The Holme
Tettenhall
Tempsford
Derby
Æthelwold
Second Stamford
Corbridge
Brunanburh
Stainmore
Maldon
First Alton
St Brice's Day
Pinhoe
Thetford
Ringmere
Cnut's invasion (1015–16)
Assandun
Brentford
Harald's invasion (1066)
Northumbrian Revolt of 1065
Fulford
Stamford Bridge
The Battle of Ashdown was a West Saxon victory over a Danish Viking army on about 8 January 871. The location of Ashdown is not known, but may be Kingstanding Hill[a] in Berkshire. Other writers place the battle near Starveall, a short distance north of the village of Aldworth and south east of Lowbury Hill.[3][4]
The West Saxons were led by King Æthelred and his younger brother, the future King Alfred the Great, while the Viking commanders were Bagsecg and Halfdan. The battle is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Asser's Life of King Alfred.[5]
^Hughes (1859) p. frontis.
^Peddie, John (2005). Alfred, Warrior King. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing. pp. 96–98. ISBN 978-0-7509-3796-2.
^"britishbattles.com".
^Marren, Peter (2009). Battles of the Dark Ages. Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 978-1844158843.
^Abels, Richard (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Harlow, UK: Longman. p. 129. ISBN 0-582-04047-7.
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