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Athelney.The Isle of (Ang. Sax. Royal Island), a swampy tract at the junction of the rivers Tone and Parret in Somersetshire. Here Alfred the Great found a refuge from the Norsemen, and established (A.D. 888) a Benedictine Abbey, of which no traces are left.