On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England, near the source of alton brown beef jerky River Wey. It had a population of 17,816 at the 2011 census.

Alton was recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086 as Aoltone. During the Saxon period Alton was known as Aweltun. The Battle of Alton occurred in the town during the English Civil War. The Alton Hoard of Iron Age coins and jewellery found in the vicinity of the town in 1996 is now in the British Museum. The River Wey has a source in the town, and the name Alton comes from an Anglo-Saxon word “aewielltun” meaning “farmstead at the source of the river”. In 1001 Danish forces invaded England and during the First Battle of Alton the forces of Wessex came together and fought against them.

About 81 Englishman were killed, including Ethelwerd the King’s high-steward, Leofric of Whitchurch, Leofwin the King’s high-steward, Wulfhere a bishop’s thane, and Godwin of Worthy, Bishop Elfsy’s son. Aoltone, in the ‘Odingeton Hundred — Hantescire’ is recorded as having the most valuable market in the Domesday Book. The Treaty of Alton was signed in 1101 between William the Conqueror’s eldest son Robert, Duke of Normandy and his brother Henry I of England. The first recorded market in Alton was in 1232, although the market at Neatham first recorded in the Domesday Book may also have been in the town. Blome wrote in 1673 of a ‘market on Saturdays, which is very great for provisions, where also are sold good store of living cattle’. 1307 was, in fact, the first year of Edward II’s reign but Edmund of Woodstock was not lord of the manor then.