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| | Worcestershire History Encyclopaedia: Royal Wychbold? |
 | | For example, there is a charter showing a grant of land in the nearby Manor of Himbleton sealed by a Mercian King or Regulus in the year 700 AD at his Wychbold Court. |
 | | Wychbold, formerly known as Uuicbold (692AD), Uicbold (815AD), Wicbold (831AD), and the Middle English variations of Wicbald, Wichbald, Wichbaud, Wichbould, is two miles north of the important Romano-British town of Droitwich straddling the old Roman road (now the A38). |
 | | The account goes on to state, that after a stalemated battle between them and their followers near Oddingley, the protagonists divided the salt workings in a reasonably equitable manner with the Angle being given salt trading rights on the river Severn, upstream from the junction of the Severn and the local river Salwarpe. |
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