Countisbury
.jpg)
Countisbury[1] is a hamlet on Exmoor in Devon, England.[2] It is roughly two miles east of Lynmouth along the A39. It has a church[3] and pub.[4] The National Trust owns the other buildings.[5][6][7]
Since 2012, Countisbury has formed part of the civil parish of Brendon and Countisbury, having previously been a civil parish in its own right.[8]
Scholars [9][10] now believe the Iron Age promontory fort of Wind Hill on Countisbury Hill was the site of the Battle of Cynuit in 878.
References
- ^ Genuki
- ^ Geograph
- ^ Church details
- ^ Devon's Finest
- ^ National Trust (1)
- ^ National Trust (2)
- ^ Exmoor National Pak
- ^ "The North Devon District Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) No. 1 Order 2012" (PDF). North Devon District Council. 26 October 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ FM Stenton, "Anglo-Saxon England", Oxford University Press, (2nd edition 1947), pp 241n, 253.
- ^ Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge, "King Alfred", (1983), Penguin Books, p. 84.
51°13′55″N 3°47′46″W / 51.232°N 3.796°W
 | This Devon location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |