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"HUNGERFORD, a parish and market town, partly in the hundred of Kintbury Eagle, county Berks, and partly in the hundred of Kinwardstone, county Wilts, Wilts, 24 miles W.S.W. of Reading, and 64 from London by road, or 61½ by the Hungerford, Newbury, and Reading branch of the Great Western railway. In ancient times it was called Ingleford-Charnham Street, from the old British way from Silchester to Bath, which passes through the parish. It is situated on the river Kennet and the Kennet and Avon canal, and contains besides the town of Hungerford the tythings of Charnham Street, Sanden Fee, and Edington, the last identified by Prof. Beke as the Saxon Ethandune, where Alfred, disguised as a harper, spied the Danish forces, and defeated them in 878. Hungerford was visited by Charles I. in 1644, and by William III. in December, 1688, who met the agents of James II. at the old inn." (There is more of this description)."EDDINGTON, a tything in the parish of Hungerford, hundred of Kentbury Eagle, county Berks. It is situated on the river Kennet, in the vicinity of Hungerford. It was the Ethandun of the Saxons, and said to be the place where King Alfred, disguised as a harper, discovered the designs of his enemies, the Danes, and put them to flight.
"HIDDEN, a tything in the parish of Hungerford, county Berks, 1 mile N.E. of Hungerford. It is joined to Edington."
"HUNGERFORD NEWTOWN, a hamlet in the parish of Hungerford, hundred of Kintbury Eagle, county Berks, 3 miles N.E. of Hungerford."
"NEWTOWN, a tything in the parish of Hungerford, hundred of Kentbury Eagle, county Berks, 3 miles N.E. of Hungerford."
"SANDEN FEE, a tything in the parish of Hungerford, hundred of Kintbury Eagle, county Berks, near Hungerford."
From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003
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