Buttington
Buttington | |
Welsh: Tal-y-bont | |
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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 |
Coordinates: 52°40′N 3°07′W / 52.66°N 03.12°W
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
- William Boyd Dawkins, geologist and archaeologist
![](../I/m/Buttington_railway_station_1957927_940f2f30.jpg)
Buttington railway station in 1953
References
- ↑ 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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