Following the Kempsford clash, the Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire borderland remained contested between Wessex and a weakened Mercia in the early ninth century. Egbert of Wessex, who had returned from exile in Francia, began asserting West Saxon claims along the upper Thames. The Burford area was a traditional frontier between the two kingdoms.
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