At this time Aldhelm, a Saxon by birth and related to King Ine of Wessex, took over the leadership ... and he has been known ever after as St Aldhelm. Athelstan was a distinguished and courageous ...

that I championed Athelstan as the greatest of England’s monarchs…and I am also delighted to champion a walking route across his kingdom of Wessex that seeks to remind us of his Christian ...

The coin shows Athelstan in a crown with an inscription round the edges. A rare coin showing a king who ruled more than a thousand years ago has been bought by the museum bearing his name.