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Contents 1 Archive 2 Egbert and Alfred 3 Edward the Elder 4 time to split off the people?

[edit] Archive

• /Archive1 - old talk from Winchester, Hampshire

[edit] Egbert and Alfred

There is a problem in the history section arising from a corrected mistake. Until April 5th it included the lines "...it was established by King Alfred the Great as the main city in his kingdom in 827. The Saxon street plan laid out by Alfred is still evident today...", which reads fine but is wrong (Alfred wasn't even born in 827). This was corrected to: "...it was established by King Egbert as the main city in his kingdom in 827. The Saxon street plan laid out by Alfred is still evident today...", which is factually consistent but stylistically weird as Alfred hadn't been mentioned until that point but it sounds as if he should have been.

So if Egbert established it, is it his street plan which survives? Or did Alfred redevelop it when he became king (in which case the sentence should be rewritten to reflect that)? Or was it actually Alfred who established it as a capital, as originally stated, and it was the year that should have been corrected? --82.47.198.253 11:03, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edward the Elder

According to Mike Ashley's Biographical Encyclepedia of British Kings and Queens, Edward the Elder (d.924) was indeed buried in Winchester Cathedral. I'm undoing the undo and providing a reference for that fact. If this is not the case, could someone provide a ref of some sort showing that I'm wrong. thanks! Josh 14:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

From a plethora of possible references, I have given the most recent and specific I could find. There are many errors in Mike Ashley's work. Edward the Elder was buried in the New Minster, then at Hyde Abbey. His last resting place is marked in the Hyde Abbey Garden near the Leisure Centre. Also, strictly speaking Egbert and Canute are not 'buried' in the Cathedral. Their bones are in abox. Walgamanus 22:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

thanks for setting it straight! Josh 00:50, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] time to split off the people?

The list of people is growing, maybe its time to split it off as Bath has done here List of people from Bath. GameKeeper (talk) 20:08, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Agreed. In addition, the section within this article should be written as prose, not as a list. Waggers (talk) 10:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)