Hi I was wondering if someone could clear this up for me. Was Alfred the Great's palace at Westdean in the Cuckmere Valley, East Sussex, or at West Dean near Chichester, West Sussex? Kind regards Leigh Driver

Good Afternoon - I don't think that either of these options were Alfred's palace as his Royal Palace was always at Winchester, around which was a network of burhs with strongpoints on the main river routes, so that no part of Wessex was more than 20 miles from the refuge of one of these settlements. This URL will explain more: http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page25.asp Kind Regards June & Roy (SANHS Member No 1066) http://www.btinternet.com/~roy.cox/index.htm -----Original Message----- From: YeagerLA@aol.com [mailto:YeagerLA@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 2:57 PM To: OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OEL] Alfred the Great's Palace Hi I was wondering if someone could clear this up for me. Was Alfred the Great's palace at Westdean in the Cuckmere Valley, East Sussex, or at West Dean near Chichester, West Sussex? Kind regards Leigh Driver ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== To UNSUBSCRIBE from list mode -- Send the one word UNSUBSCRIBE to OLD-ENGLISH-L-request@rootsweb.com