BRATTON, a chapelry in the parish of WESTBURY, and hundred
of WESTBURY, county of WILTS, 3 miles (E. N. E.) from
Westbury, containing, with Hawkeridge and Haywood,
1295 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for
Particular Baptists. Bratton Castle is a strong Danish
encampment, where the Danes, after their defeat by the
Saxons, held out for fourteen days. On the slope of the
hill beneath it is the figure of a horse, cut out, as tradition
relates, by the troops of Alfred, in memory of
the victory which they obtained on Eddington down:
several fragments of military weapons have been dug
up in the vicinity of this earthwork.