Somerset Archaeological Society: … … The Rev. E. H. Bates dilated on the extensive view to be obtained from the spot and remarked that it would be a grand site for a national memorial to Alfred; within sight from the spot were Glastonbury, the home of King Arthur; the home of the Great Earl of Chatham at Burton Pynsent, and the monument to the Duke of Wellington on the Blackdown Hills.
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