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Wimbledon - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | WIMBLEDON, a municipal borough and western residential suburb of London, in the Wimbledon parliamentary division of Surrey, England, adjoining the metropolitan borough of Wandsworth, 8 M. of Charing Cross. |
 | | Wimbledon (Wibbandune) is supposed to have been the scene of a battle in 568 between Ceawlin, king of Wessex, and ZEthelberht, king of Kent, in which 2Ethelberht was defeated, and an earthwork which existed on the Common may have marked the site. |
 | | On the impeachment of Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury, in 1398, it was confiscated. |
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