Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Alney

Alney, island in the Severn, near Gloucester; here Edmund Ironside and Canute, after a single combat (1016), agreed to divide the kingdom.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "island"   (ADL Feature Type: "islands")
Administrative units: Gloucestershire AncC
Place: Alney

Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.