Shaftesbury
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Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury and 23 miles north-northeast of Dorchester, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only
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Old milestone in Blandford Forum showing use of the name Shaston for Shaftesbury
The ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey
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Cnut
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Cnut, also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united und
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…from Wareham and received at the abbey with great ceremony, thereafter turning Shaftesbury into a major site of pilgrimage for miracles of healing. King Canute died here in 1035, though he was buried at Winchester. Edward the Confessor licensed a third mint for the town. By the time of the Norman conquest in…
Contemporary drawing of King Cnut from the New Minster Liber Vitae, 1031
This runestone in Sweden (U 194), in memory of a Viking known as Alli, says he won Knútr's payment in England.
Medieval illumination depicting Kings Edmund Ironside (left) and Cnut (right), from the Chronica Majora written and illustrated by Matthew Paris
Silver penny of Cnut the Great with a quatrefoil on the obverse dating to the period c.1017–23