cuthmanni

Updated: May 13, 2025

The father of the great Alfred was interred here for a time, his remains being afterwards taken to Winchester when his son made that city the capital of united England, though the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle asserts that the King was buried at Worcester. Steyning was once known as Portus Cuthmanni and to this point the tidal estuary of the Adur then reached.

Edric Holmes - Seaward Sussex: The South Downs from End to End