Hingston Down is a hill near Gunnislake near Callington in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Gunnislake ( Lynngonna, its Cornish name is one of the first villages in Cornwall, after crossing the River Tamar. Callington (Kelliwik is a small Town and Civil parish in southeast Cornwall, UK. Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located
This is possibly the Hingston Down mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which says that in 835 (corrected by scholars to 838) Egbert king of the West Saxons defeated an army of Vikings and Cornish at Hengestdun = "Stallion Hill". The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of Annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. Egbert (also spelt Ecgberht) (died 839 was King of Wessex from 802 until 839 West Saxon redirects here For other meanings of Wessex or West Saxon see Wessex (disambiguation. A Viking is one of the Norse ( Scandinavian Explorers Warriors Merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas The Cornish people (Kernowyon are regarded as an Ethnic group of the United Kingdom originating in Cornwall. A more likely site for this battle is now thought to be at Hingston Down near Moretonhampstead in Devon as mentioned in Cornish World Magazine in Oct 2007. Hingston Down is a hill spur approximately one mile east of Moretonhampstead and 10 miles west of Exeter in Devon. Moretonhampstead is a fairly small Market town and Civil parish in Devon, England. Devon is a large county in the South West of England. The county is also referred to as Devonshire, but that is an entirely unofficial name [1] This is thought to be the more likely location as it was nearly a full century later in 936 when King Athelstan fixed the east bank of the River Tamar as the boundary between Anglo-Saxon Wessex and Celtic Cornwall. The Tamar is a River in south western England, that forms most of the border between Devon (to the east and Cornwall (to the west Celts (ˈkɛlts or /ˈsɛlts/, see Names of the Celts Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar [2] Up until 927 the two peoples had lived together in Devon and Exeter "aequo jure" = "by equal law". [3][4].
There is a quarry there, [5] and the Hingston Downs Consols mine is the type locality for the mineral Arthurite[6], which was discovered here. In some natural sciences type locality (Latin locus typicus) is the typical or representative location and is typically the first example of a newly discovered or described Arthurite is a Mineral with the chemical formula Cu[[iron Fe]]23+] H,O|( AsO sub>4 PO sub>4 [7]
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References
- ^ Cornish World Magazine - Oct 2007 - Craig Weatherill
- ^ Philip Payton. Hingston Down is a hill spur approximately one mile east of Moretonhampstead and 10 miles west of Exeter in Devon. Kit Hill (334 m dominates the area between Callington and the River Tamar in southeast Cornwall, UK. Philip John Payton is professor of Cornish and Australian Studies at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies (1996). Cornwall. Fowey: Alexander Associates
- ^ William of Malmesbury - Gesta regum Anglorum about 1120
- ^ Professor Philip Payton 2004 - Cornwall - A History
- ^ Hingston Down Quarry, Gunnislake Area, Callington District, Cornwall, England, UK
- ^ Hingston Down Consols, Gunnislake Area, Callington District, Cornwall, England, UK
- ^ Embrey, P. Biography The education William received at Malmesbury Abbey included a smattering of Logic and Physics; Moral philosophy and History, Philip John Payton is professor of Cornish and Australian Studies at the University of Exeter and Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies G. ; Symes, R. F. [1987]. "The mines and mining", Minerals of Cornwall and Devon. London: British Museum (Natural History), p. The Natural History Museum is one of three large Museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum 58. ISBN 0565009893.
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