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MARKET TOWNS OF ESSEX (from SDUK Penny Cyclopedia)

Ashdon in 1837

Ashdon, the parish of which, including the hamlet of Bartlow End, had, in 1831, a population of 1,103, is in the half hundred of Freshwell, three miles from Saffron Walden. It is supposed by some to have been the scene of a dreadful battle fought between Edmund Ironside and Canute : but the battle was more probably fought at Assingdon in the hundred of Rochford. At Bartlowhills, in the parish of Bartlow, Cambridgeshire, two miles north of Bartlow church, four contiguous barrows have been regarded as the tumuli raised over those who were slain in this battle, but this rests on tradition only.