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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ The weg is undoubtedly the road just mentioned. The herepath is the main road through Wylye just N. of the railway. The weg seems to have been diverted in modern times, for the survey implies that it ran in AS. times along that 2+ fur. stretch of the W. by. which now intervenes between it and the herepath. 1 18. Thonne ofer thone Herpath and nither ofer thone Merse thaet hit eumth on Wilig Staeth : ' Then over the Highway and down over the Marsh till it comes to the Bank of the Wylye.' The W. by. reaches the Wylye about 300 yds. SE. of the church at Fisherton-de-la-Mere. The marsh was between the river and the railway. 19. Thonne nither aiid lang stremes on butan thone Hors Gaerstun thaet hit sticath on thaere ea Sylfre (read Syrfe) 2 : ' Then down along stream round the Grass Croft of the Horses till it reaches the Service-tree by the river.' The site of the Hors Gaerstun is not determinable ; but it must have been on the S. side of the river near the village. 20. Thonne andlang Ea oth that hit eumth to tham East Land Gemaere aet Maer Furh thaer hit aer onfeng : ' Then along the river till it comes to the East Balk of the Plough Land at Boundary Furrow where it first began.' See 1. There are two appendages to this survey : 1. A survey of the bounds of lands belonging to Wylye, viz. certain wies, ' dairy farms,' at a place called in the survey, Brembeleumb, but in a later added title Wyke. These seem to be lands in Baverstock parish (see notes on Baverstock, p. 266). 2. A note which runs thus in translation : ' And the Mead at Dutta's Croft (Duttan Hamm) belongs to Wylye, and the Game Enclosure (hage) at Wilton which belongs to Wylye, and the (renewing ?) of the Farm Hedge at Grove Lea (Grovely Forest), and every third tree at the Wood at Man's Pool (in the river), this all belongs to Wylye to Ordwald's Farm (? Village).' Perhaps the game enclosure at Wilton was on the site 1 For a description of these two roads see Arcb. Journ. vol. lxxv, 1918, 1 Ancient Highways of Wilts.' roads 53 and 54, p. 105. 2 Sylfre would mean ' silver,' an impossible reading.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ of the park of Wilton House. Grovely is the wood 3 m. WNW. of Wilton. The site of the mead at Duttan Hamm is shown in a perambulation of Wishford which mentions a Duttenham Meade at the NW. corner of Great Wishford parish, on the Wylye river. A second charter of the lands of Wylye, N. of the Wylye river. Not in Β. ; K.611. RD. A.D. 977. Granted by King Eadweard to Aelfric, his servant. Hides. 10. Name : Wilig. The survey is of the AS. age, and may be the survey originally attached to the grant. Survey. 1. Aerest up of Wylle forda ofer Biean Dune on thone midemestan Beorh : ' First up from the Ford of the Spring over Bitch's Down to the Midmost Barrow.' It is difficult to say where the ford of the spring actually was; but it is probable that it was either where the W. by. of Wylye going N. leaves the river, or possibly where the road running N. from the village crosses the river. The former is more probable. Biean Dun is the high land which the by. begins to cross about 5 fur. N. of the river. The barrow has vanished ; but the next landmark shows that it was on this down. 2. Andlang thaes Widan Cumbes on thone Hriezveg: ' Along the Wide Combe to the Ridgeway.' The wide combe is the great combe which this W. by. traverses up on Deptford Down (OMi). The Ridgeway is the road which comes down in a SE. direction from Chitterne All Saints and forms the N. by. of the parish. 1 3. Andlang thaes Hrieweges on northewearde Geonnan Beorh : ' Along the Ridgeway to the north of (Geonna's ?) Barrow.' I suspect that the surveyors were rather hard up for landmarks in this somewhat featureless country, and that 1 For this road see Arcb. Journ. vol. bcxv, 1918, 'Ancient Highways of Wilts,' road 46, p. 97.
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