The Battle of Mercredesburne

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, states that Ælle arrived in Sussex with three ships and went on to fight at Cymenshore .

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Cymenshore was a place in Southern England where, according to the Chronicles Ælle landed in AD 477 and battled the local Britons with his three sons Cymen, Wlencing and Cissa..

The spelling Cymenshore in Old English Cȳmenes ōra, which is now lost. The location for Cȳmenes ōra is traditionally identified with Selsey Bill

Battle of Mercredesburne in 485..

Ælle became the first king of the South Saxons.

The villages of Ashburnham and Penhurst in East Sussex maintain a tradition that a pre-Saxon earthwork known as Town Creep, situated in Creep Wood which adjoins the two villages, was the site of Mercredsburn. Oral tradition surviving to the end of the 19th century referred to the earthworks as being the site of a town which was besieged and destroyed by the Saxons

The Kingdom of Sussex was eventually annexed by the Kingdom of Wessex in the 9th century and went on to become the county of Sussex, England.