Dyrham

It is near the A46 trunk road, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Bath and a little south of the M4 motorway.

[1] The name of Dyrham is first attested in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which took its present form in the later ninth century, and in tenth-century charters, as Deorham.

This name it thought to derive from the Old English words dēor ("wild animal, deer") and hamm ("enclosed land, river meadow").

The outcome of the battle was supposedly a decisive win for the West Saxons, allowing them to colonise three important cities, Glevum (Gloucester), Corinium (Cirencester) and Aquae Sulis (Bath).

The historicity of this event is uncertain, but Dyrham was evidently at least imagined as its site.

St Peter's Church, parish church of Dyrham. Next to it has stood for many centuries the manor house of Dyrham, the present incarnation of which, Dyrham Park (pictured), dates from the reign of William & Mary , and is thought to incorporate some of the structure of the ancient home of the Russells. In this church can be seen the funerary brass of Sir Maurice Russell (d.1416)