Hingston Down

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Hingston Down is a hill near Gunnislake near Callington in Cornwall in England.

THe Anglo-Saxon Chronicle spells its name as Hengestdun = "Stallion Hill" and says that there in 835 (corrected by scholars to 838) Egbert king of the West Saxons defeated an army of Vikings and Cornish.

There is a quarry[1] there.