The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's entry for 851 describes a great victory by Aethelwulf of Wessex and his son Aethelbald at a place identified with Ockley in Surrey (Acleah). The battle followed a massive Danish raid in which Canterbury was stormed and London sacked. The West Saxon counter-attack at Ockley inflicted the heaviest defeat on the Danes recorded in the Chronicle to that point — though it did not end the Viking threat to southern England.
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