- ATHELNEY, ISLE OF
- an island in a marsh near the confluence of the Tone and Parret, Somerset; Alfred's place of refuge from the Danes.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
ATHELNEY, ISLE OF
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