Buttington
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Coordinates: 52°40′N 3°07′W / 52.66°N 03.12°W
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| Welsh: Tal-y-bont | |
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Buttington shown within Powys |
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| OS grid reference | SJ2408 |
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| Principal area | Powys |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
Buttington (Welsh: Tal-y-bont) is a village in Powys, Wales. The Montgomery Canal passes through the village.[1]
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The Battle of Buttington[edit]
At Butttington in 893 a combined Welsh and Mercian army under Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, defeated a Danish army which had marched from Essex. This was the decisive battle in the war against the Viking invasion of the 890s.[2][3]
Notable people[edit]
- William Boyd Dawkins, geologist and archaeologist
References[edit]
- ^ GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
- ^ *Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2013). Wales and the Britons 350-1064. Oxford University Press. pp. 507–508. ISBN 978-0-19-821731-2.
- ^ Smyth, Alfred (1987). Scandinavian York and Dublin. Irish Academic Press. pp. 33–35. ISBN 0-7165-2365-5.
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