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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\<br />

A second charter of the lands of Baverstock.<br />

This survey is taken from the Wilton cartulary in Dugdale's<br />

Monasticon, vol. ii, p. 323 ff. I cannot find it in<br />

Birch or Kemble. The grant seems to have <strong>be</strong>en part of a<br />

large grant of lands made <strong>by</strong> King Eadgar to the monastery<br />

at Wilton.<br />

Hides. 3.<br />

Name : Babbanstoke, Bebanstoce.<br />

Survey.<br />

The landmarks in the survey are :<br />

1. ' A Dyke (Die):<br />

2. ' Huna's Way (Hunan Weg).''<br />

3. ' Along Huna's Way.'<br />

4. ' Spring of the Ashtrees (Aesc Wyll).'<br />

15. ' Along the Spring (or Sm<strong>all</strong> Brook) of the Ashtrees.'<br />

6. ' Out on the Nadder River (Nodre).'<br />

7. ' Up from the Nadder River to . . . (Luing) slowflowing<br />

Stream (Lac) as far as the Ford (Ford).'<br />

8. ' North along the Dyke (Die):<br />

9. ' To the Red Stone (Readan Hane).'<br />

10. ' The Old Thorn-tree (Eald Thorn):<br />

11. ' The west side of the Grey Dairy Farm (Har Wic):<br />

12. ' The Hoar Appletree (Har Apuldor):<br />

13. ' The Old Moot Spring (Eald Gemot Wyll):<br />

14. ' Along the Dyke (Die) to Huna's Way (Hunan<br />

Weg):<br />

As far as I can see the survey includes the <strong>who</strong>le of the<br />

parish except (1) the extension of it which runs out E.<br />

from the village, and (2) <strong>that</strong> NE. part included in the<br />

previous charter.<br />

Hunan Weg 1 is mentioned in the Langford charter, B.934.<br />

The survey <strong>be</strong>gins probably at the NW. corner of Baverstock,<br />

where the dyke still exists (OM6). <strong>It</strong> meets Huna's<br />

Way about 300 yds. E. of <strong>that</strong> point, and then as stated in<br />

3 runs S. along <strong>that</strong> road, cutting off <strong>that</strong> part of the parish<br />

which the previous charter says is a dependency of Wylye.<br />

This road, c<strong>all</strong>ed Fir Drove in OM6, meets the E. <strong>by</strong>. in<br />

the bottom of a v<strong>all</strong>ey at a point ^ m. N. <strong>by</strong> E. of the village.<br />

Here <strong>must</strong> have <strong>be</strong>en the Aesc Wyll of 4, a sm<strong>all</strong> brook the<br />

course of which is plainly marked in OM6 about £ m.<br />

1 For Hunan weg see Arcb. Journ. vol. lxxv, 1918, road 52, p. 105.

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