Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ALNEY (Isle of)

ALNEY (Isle of), an islet in the Severn, in the vicinity of Gloucester. Edmund Ironsides and Canute fought a single combat here in 1016; and proving equal in the strife, concluded a peace, and agreed to divide the kingdom between them.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an islet"   (ADL Feature Type: "islands")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place names: ALNEY     |     ALNEY ISLE OF     |     ISLE OF ALNEY
Place: Alney

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