They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

There were several reasons for positioning a new station at Stoke Gifford: trains to London were quicker than on the longer route from Temple Meads, via Bath and Chippenham before reaching Swindon ; a larger car park than at Temple Meads could be provided ; the population on the northern fringes of the city was growing, especially with the building of a new town at Bradley Stoke ; and it was within easy access of the M4 and M5 motorways.

He served as Member of Parliament for Chippenham between 1832 and 1835 when he retired from Parliament.

Category: People from Chippenham

Lacock is a village in Wiltshire, England, 3 miles ( 5 km ) from the town of Chippenham.

After the two rivers merge, the Avon then turns south east away from the Cotswolds and then quickly south into the clay Dauntsey Vale, where it is joined by the River Marden, until it reaches the biggest town so far, Chippenham.

Alfred spent Christmas at Chippenham, thirty miles from Gloucester.

With his small warband, a fraction of his army at Chippenham, Alfred could not hope to retake the town from the Danes, who had in previous wars ( for example at Reading in 871 ) proved themselves adept at defending fortified positions.

After the victory, when the Danes had taken refuge in Chippenham, the West Saxons removed from the area around all food that the Danes might be able to capture in a sortie, and waited.

* Chippenham Volunteer Rifle Corps ( stationed in Chippenham from 1846 to 1911 )

* An extension of Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre ( from 2012 )

According to Bishop Asser's Life of King Alfred Chippenham was, under Alfred's reign, a royal vill ; historians have also argued, from its proximity to the royal forests at Melksham and Barden, that it was probably a hunting lodge.

The A4 that runs through Chippenham ( from London to Bristol ) incorporates parts of the 14th century medieval road network that linked London to Bristol through Chippenham.

Chippenham was represented in the Parliament of England from 1295 onwards and Queen Mary granted the town a Charter of Incorporation in 1554.

A map of Chippenham from 1773

The parish of Chippenham Without encompasses the deserted medieval village of Sheldon, devastated by plague ; all that remains today is Sheldon Manor, Wiltshire's oldest inhabited manor house, dating from 1282.

An Ordnance Survey | OS map of Chippenham from 1896

An OS map of Chippenham from 1946

Boundary changes for the 2010 general election created a new Chippenham constituency from parts of three neighbouring constituencies.

Chippenham Golf Club is situated on the A350 as it leads North from the town.

Southwards, the line is joined by the minor Melksham branch from Chippenham shortly before Trowbridge.

Category: People from Chippenham

The first we read of Alfred after the disaster at Chippenham is around Easter, when he built a fortress at Athelney.

In 2005, Europe's second largest logistics organisation, Wincanton PLC, consolidated its head office operations and moved to the newly developed Methuen Park office development in west Chippenham, where it employs around 350 people.

Chippenham is a market town, with street markets taking place most Fridays and Saturdays around Market Place and along the pedestrianised High Street.

Bristol City Centre is located 4 miles to the west, and Chippenham is located 18 miles to the east, The Ring Road also runs around the eastern edge of Kingswood.

* Chippenham Museum ( the Borough Council started work on this in the 1950s but the museum did not open until 25 October 1963.

About 1, 100 residents living in the east of Chippenham had to be evacuated for two nights to friends and relatives or emergency accommodation until the Army carried out a controlled explosion.

He seems to have remained at Oxford until 1630, when he became vicar of Chippenham.

Eccles was elected as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Chippenham in a wartime by-election in 1943, a seat he held until 1962.

In 1742 when the House of Commons was prepared to determine the validity of an allegedly rigged by-election in Chippenham, Walpole and others agreed to treat the issue as a Motion of No Confidence.

Brown Road and Belleau Drive each follow portions of the old Warwick Road which are now west of Chippenham Parkway, which severed the old route in the mid-1960s when it was built between present-day Jahnke Road and Midlothian Turnpike.

On the night of April 16, 1960, Sheeley, Vincent and Cochran were traveling in a private hire taxi from a concert in Bristol to London airport when it blew a tire and slammed into a lamp post near Chippenham, Wiltshire.

He sat as Tory Member of Parliament for Chippenham between 1818 and 1820 and for Woodstock from 1826 to 1831, from 1832 to 1835 and from 1838 to 1840, when he succeeded in the dukedom and entered the House of Lords.

Further Danish forces had settled on the land before Guthrum attacked Wessex: in East Anglia, and in Mercia between the treaty at Exeter and the attack on Chippenham ; many others were lost in a storm off Swanage in 876-7, with 120 ships wrecked Internal disunity was threatening to tear the Danes apart, and they needed time to reorganize.

Chippenham has two football clubs, Chippenham Town F. C., and Chippenham Park F. C .. Chippenham Town was formed in 1873, and have played in the FA Vase 2000 Final, where Chippenham lost 1-0 to Deal Town F. C., they currently play in the Southern Premier League.

Trains on the Great Western Main Line are sometimes diverted from Reading along the Reading to Taunton line, as far as, from where they can use the Wessex Main Line to reach either Chippenham, or Bath Spa.

This has particularly hit Trowbridge to London commuters, who now generally have to drive to Chippenham or Westbury for a connection to London if they wish to arrive at the capital relatively early.

The 1999 – 2000 season saw the club reach the fourth round of the FA Vase where they lost to Chippenham Town 1 – 0.

Gradually the weekly markets at Bath, Chippenham, and Bridgeyate took the business away from Marshfield fairs: they no longer paid their way therefore and so were ended.

After the Council and Burgess ( now Mayor ) moved to the Town Hall ( High Street, Chippenham ) in 1841 the hall had various uses:

As agreed Guthrum left Chippenham and moved to Cirencester.

The company still has a dairy products base in the town, although its head office function moved to Chippenham, Wiltshire in 2005.