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  2. Gewisse - Wikipedia

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    Kingdom of Wessex. The Gewisse ( Old English: [jeˈwisːe] ye-WEES-se; Latin: Geuissæ) were a tribe or ruling clan of the Anglo-Saxons. Their first location, mentioned in early medieval sources was the upper Thames region, around Dorchester on Thames. [1] However, some scholars suggest that the Gewisse had origins among the ancient Britons at ...

  3. 243 (Wessex) Multi-Role Medical Regiment - Wikipedia

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    128 Support Squadron, at Keynsham and Gloucester; 219 Hospital Squadron, at Wyvern Barracks, Exeter; 211 Hospital Squadron, at Plymouth and Truro; 129 Medical Squadron, at Portsmouth; Uniform. The Wessex Wyvern Division Sign was used by the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division during the two world wars: a mythical creature said to lurk in the West ...

  4. Wessex Constitutional Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Wessex Constitutional Convention is an all-party pressure group, in the United Kingdom, devoted to pursuing a degree of self-government for Wessex. It has the following stated aims: To achieve the broadest consensus on the form of self-government appropriate for Wessex.

  5. Egdon Heath - Wikipedia

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    Egdon Heath. Egdon Heath is a fictitious area of Thomas Hardy 's Wessex inhabited sparsely by the people who cut the furze ( gorse) that grows there. The entire action of Hardy's novel The Return of the Native takes place on Egdon Heath, and it also features in The Mayor of Casterbridge and the short story The Withered Arm (1888).

  6. Wessex culture - Wikipedia

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    The Wessex culture is the predominant prehistoric culture of central and southern Britain during the early Bronze Age, originally defined by the British archaeologist Stuart Piggott in 1938. [1] The culture is related to the Hilversum culture of the southern Netherlands, Belgium and northern France, and linked to the Armorican Tumulus culture ...

  7. Wessex Formation - Wikipedia

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    Exposures of the Wessex and Vectis Formations in southern Dorset, shown in turquoise. The Wessex Formation is a fossil-rich English geological formation that dates from the Berriasian to Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous. It forms part of the Wealden Group and underlies the younger Vectis Formation and overlies the Durlston Formation.

  8. Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Wessex. The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until England was unified in 927. The Anglo-Saxons believed that Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric of the Gewisse, though this is considered by some to be a legend.

  9. Cerdic of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Wessex. Cerdic ( / ˈtʃɜːrdɪtʃ / CHER-ditch; [4] Latin: Cerdicus) is described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Wessex, reigning from around 519 to 534 AD. Subsequent kings of Wessex were each claimed by the Chronicle to descend in some manner from Cerdic ...

  10. House of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic, the House of the West Saxons, the House of the Gewisse, the Cerdicings and the West Saxon dynasty, refers to the family, traditionally founded by Cerdic of the Gewisse, that ruled Wessex in Southern England from the early 6th century. The house became dominant in southern England after the ...

  11. Earl of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Earl of Wessex. the 1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten. Earl of Wessex is a title that has been created twice in British history – once in the pre- Conquest Anglo-Saxon nobility of England, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In the 6th century AD the region of Wessex (the lands of the West Saxons ), in the south ...