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ALNEY (Isle of), an islet in the Severn, in the vicinity of Gloucester. Edmund Ironsides and Canute fought a single combat here in 1016; and proving equal in the strife, concluded a peace, and agreed to divide the kingdom between them.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an islet" (ADL Feature Type: "islands") |
| Administrative units: | Gloucestershire Ancient County |
| Place names: | ALNEY | ALNEY ISLE OF | ISLE OF ALNEY |
| Place: | Alney |
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