Buttington

Buttington
Welsh: Tal-y-bont

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 Buttington shown within Powys
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Coordinates: 52°40′N 3°07′W / 52.66°N 03.12°W / 52.66; -03.12

Buttington (Welsh: Tal-y-bont) is a village in Powys, Wales. The Montgomery Canal passes through the village.[1]

The Battle of Buttington

At Buttington 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

Buttington railway station in 1953

References

  1. 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.
  2. Smyth, Alfred (1987). Scandinavian York and Dublin. Irish Academic Press. pp. 33–35. ISBN 0-7165-2365-5.

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