 It was fought at Hinton Hill near Dyrham in South Gloucestershire.The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" entry for 577 records that that year King Ceawlin of Wessex and his young son Cuthwine fought the Britons of the West Country at "the spot that is called [Deorham]".This is generally taken to be Dyrham in what is now South Gloucestershire, on the Cotswolds escarpment a few miles north of Bath.