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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ A second charter of the lands of Baverstock. This survey is taken from the Wilton cartulary in Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii, p. 323 ff. I cannot find it in Birch or Kemble. The grant seems to have been part of a large grant of lands made by King Eadgar to the monastery at Wilton. Hides. 3. Name : Babbanstoke, Bebanstoce. Survey. The landmarks in the survey are : 1. ' A Dyke (Die): 2. ' Huna's Way (Hunan Weg).'' 3. ' Along Huna's Way.' 4. ' Spring of the Ashtrees (Aesc Wyll).' 15. ' Along the Spring (or Small Brook) of the Ashtrees.' 6. ' Out on the Nadder River (Nodre).' 7. ' Up from the Nadder River to . . . (Luing) slowflowing Stream (Lac) as far as the Ford (Ford).' 8. ' North along the Dyke (Die): 9. ' To the Red Stone (Readan Hane).' 10. ' The Old Thorn-tree (Eald Thorn): 11. ' The west side of the Grey Dairy Farm (Har Wic): 12. ' The Hoar Appletree (Har Apuldor): 13. ' The Old Moot Spring (Eald Gemot Wyll): 14. ' Along the Dyke (Die) to Huna's Way (Hunan Weg): As far as I can see the survey includes the whole of the parish except (1) the extension of it which runs out E. from the village, and (2) that NE. part included in the previous charter. Hunan Weg 1 is mentioned in the Langford charter, B.934. The survey begins probably at the NW. corner of Baverstock, where the dyke still exists (OM6). It meets Huna's Way about 300 yds. E. of that point, and then as stated in 3 runs S. along that road, cutting off that part of the parish which the previous charter says is a dependency of Wylye. This road, called Fir Drove in OM6, meets the E. by. in the bottom of a valley at a point ^ m. N. by E. of the village. Here must have been the Aesc Wyll of 4, a small brook the course of which is plainly marked in OM6 about £ m. 1 For Hunan weg see Arcb. Journ. vol. lxxv, 1918, road 52, p. 105.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ nearer the village. Along this brook the by. went (see 6) to the Nadder river, reaching it at a point about if fur. S. by E. of the church (OMi). Luing Lac of 7 was probably the stream or backwater which comes up from the S. to join the Nadder 1 fur. E. of Dinton Mill (OM6) ; and the ford of 7 was possibly at the mill. The dyke of 8 ran along the W. by. due N. probably to the bend in the by.. due W. of Baverstock village; and landmarks 9-12 were probably at successive bends in this W. by, the Read Han at the re-entering angle 1 fur. W. of the village, the Old Thorn at the next bend about 500 yds. N. of the last; the Har Wic at the bend only a few yards E. of the last ; the Appletree at the next bend m. N. of the last ; and the Ε aid Gemot Wyll at the bend a few yards E. of the last, where a well is marked in OM6. It is just possible that the language of the survey may mean that the Moot springwas at the NW. corner of the parish ; and local investigation might decide between these two possibilities. The 14th landmark is practically a repetition of the first two. A charter of the lands of Beechingstoke, 6 m. ESE. of Devizes. B.769; K.390. RD. A.D. 941. Granted by King Eadmund to his vassal Adric. Hides. 9. Name : Stokes, Stoke. Ident. K. Stoke Abbas, Dorset; B. Stoke, Dorset. The extant survey looks like a copy of one of the AS. age made by one who was imperfectly acquainted with Anglo-Saxon. Survey. 1. Up anlang Ninge Burne (or Hringheburne) oth thaet Hrisc Lad··. ' Up along Ring Bourne as far as the Lead 1 where the Rushes grow.' This bourne is the stream which forms part of the by. of the parish N. of the railway. The slade or lead was probably near the E. side of the small wood N. of the railway. 1 If Lad. is the right reading here, then of the charter may have written Lad for I take it to mean a mill-stream. But I Slaed, and that the landmark should be the suspect that the obviously inexpert copyist ' Rush Slade.'
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