Stourton Tower, about three miles away to the north west of the town, was the rallying place where Alfred mustered his troops for his onslaught against the Danes. Local men could have been involved in the battle fought at Penn when Edmund Ironside fought and defeated Canute the Dane in 1016 or earlier. This battle was very fierce. The Saxons routed the Danes and drove them downhill to Gillingham to a point near the Long Barrow, where they finished them off and to this day we call this area ‘Slaughter Gate’. Wavering Lane may refer to the place where the Danes ‘wavered’, i.e. the Danish line broke, but there is little or no evidence, as, in the records, this was known in the 14th.c as Whiffling Lane. Peacemarsh traditionally commemorates the subsequent peace treaty, or it may be a corruption of Peace March (i.e. Borderland) - an area in which there was to be no fighting.