How has Alfred’s reputation survived with such dramatic force when other powerful and high-achieving Anglo-Saxon kings have been all but forgotten? Why is he the only King of England to be known as ‘the Great’? This was in January 2014, 1,115 years after his death. Alfred was headline news when the results of an examination of what might have been part of his skeleton were announced in Winchester. Other monuments to his memory can be enjoyed on a day out at Stowe Landscape Gardens, on the Stourhead estate in Wiltshire or at Athelney on the Somerset Levels.
His statue stands at the heart of a number of southern English towns – Wantage, where he was born over a thousand years ago Winchester, where he was buried Pewsey and Shaftesbury, where he also had strong personal connections. King Alfred the Great is the most famous and celebrated of all Anglo-Saxon kings.
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