Misplaced Pages

Buttington

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Buttington, Powys)

Human settlement in Wales
Buttington
Entering Buttington
Buttington is located in PowysButtingtonButtingtonLocation within Powys
OS grid referenceSJ2408
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceDyfed-Powys
FireMid and West Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Powys
52°40′N 3°07′W / 52.66°N 03.12°W / 52.66; -03.12

Buttington (Welsh: Tal-y-bont) is a village in Powys, Wales, less than 3 km from Welshpool and about 300 m from the River Severn, in the community of Trewern. The Montgomery Canal passes through the village. The village stands on a slight rise above the river's floodplain, by the ancient ford called Rhyd-y-groes, where Offa's Dyke meets the Severn. The ford retained strategic value: reportedly in 1039 a battle took place here between Welsh and English forces. All Saints Church is a Grade I listed building.

The Battle of Buttington

Main article: Battle of Buttington

At Buttington in 893 a combined Welsh and Mercian army under Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, defeated a Danish army which had marched from Essex. This was the decisive battle in the war against the Viking invasion of the 890s. The Buttington Oak stood near the village until February 2018 and was said to have been planted by local people to commemorate the battle.

Notable people

Former Buttington railway station in 1953; at the junction between the Cambrian Railways main line from Aberystwyth with the Shrewsbury and Welshpool Railway

References

  1. "Welsh Place-names: Tal-y-bont : Buttington". People's Collection Wales.
  2. GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
  3. Buttington, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
  4. Cadw. "Church of All Saints (Grade I) (7902)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
  5. *Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2013). Wales and the Britons 350-1064. Oxford University Press. pp. 507–508. ISBN 978-0-19-821731-2.
  6. Smyth, Alfred P. (1987). Scandinavian York and Dublin. Irish Academic Press. pp. 33–35. ISBN 0-7165-2365-5.
  7. "1,000-year-old oak on Offa's Dyke falls". BBC News. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  8. "Dawkins, William Boyd" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 873.
  9. Disused Stations: Buttington

External links

Powys
Principal settlements
Communities
Towns and villages
Castles
Reservoirs and lakes
Topics
Settlements on the River Severn from its source to Llandrinio (heading downstream)


Stub icon

This Powys location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: