In first place, because it gave Kingston its name, making it one of five royal boroughs in England and Wales; and also as it made the town the birthplace of England, where six more Anglo-Saxon ...

He was crowned king on September 4, 925, in Kingston-upon-Thames ... (Vikings had started raiding Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the late eighth century, and had established footholds in the north ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan ...