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Ellandun was the site of a battle between Egbert of Wessex and Beornwulf of Mercia[?]. Egbert emerged victorious and became the eighth Bretwalda and the first ruler to be styled "ruler over all England"

Ellandun is identified with Wroughton in Wiltshire

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