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Alton, Hampshire history
Early history
The name Alton comes from an Anglo-Saxon word “aewielltun” meaning “farmstead at the source of the river” The Alton Hoard of Iron Age coins and jewellery found in the vicinity of the town in 1996 is now in the British Museum.
Middle Ages
The first recorded market in Alton was in 1232, although the market at Neatham first recorded in the Domesday Book may also have been in the town. The Saturday market is featured on Kitchin’s map of Hampshire (1751) which marks the town as Alton Mt. Sat. 1307 was, in fact, the first year of Edward II’s reign but Edmund of Woodstock was not lord of the manor then.
Modern period
A small Royalist force was quartered in Alton during the English Civil War. A Parliamentary army of around 5,000 men attacked the Royalist cavalry in 1643. In 1665, Alton suffered an outbreak of bubonic plague, but soon recovered. Eight-year-old girl, Fanny Adams, was murdered in 1867 in the town of Alton.
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