• Gafulford (alternatively Gafulforda, Gafolforda or Gavelford) is the site of a battle in South West England known from the first entry in the Anglo-Saxon...
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    1915. Galford near Lewdown is assumed to be the site of the Battle of Gafulford in the 9th century. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that in 825 (adjusted...
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    in the autumn of 825 he was again campaigning against the Britons, at Gafulford. The Battle of Ellendun is thought to have taken place south of Swindon...
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    two campaigns against the "West Welsh", first in 813 and then again at Gafulford in 825. During the course of these campaigns he conquered the western...
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    kingdom is seized by his grand-nephew, Merfyn Frych of Man. Battle of Gafulford: The men of Cornish Dumnonia clash with the West Saxons at modern-day...
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    have refuted these suggestions. Camelford has sometimes been linked to Gafulford the site of a battle against the West Saxons. This link goes at least...
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    again; this may have been related to a battle recorded in the Chronicle at Gafulford in 823, between the men of Devon and the Britons of Cornwall. It was also...
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  • writer Galford near Lew Trenchard in Devon, England; the likely site of Gafulford where a battle took place in 825 AD Galford D. Weller, a character from...
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    Egbert raided Cornwall 'from east to West' which, given later battles at Gafulford and Hingston Down probably indicates the conquest of the remaining parts...
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  • ending the Mercian Supremacy. A fight of Welsh/Britons and Devon-men at Gafulford in the south-west. 825–827 Æthelwulf, son of Ecgberht of Wessex, drives...
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