First Battle of Alton

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The First Battle of Alton was a skirmish in 1001 between the English and the Vikings. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle it took place at somewhere called, in Old English, Æthelingadene.^[1] Traditionally, the site was believed to have been what is now Alton, Hampshire.^[2] However, it is thought more likely to have been in the East and West Dean area of modern-day West Sussex.^[3]