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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ Owing to the very precise nature of landmarks 9 and 10, and owing to the remarkable way in which they accord with certain features traceable in the modern topography of the region, I think that there can be no doubt that there has been a modification of the boundary between Wilton and Wishford since the survey was made ; and that the SW. corner of Wishford on which Heath Wood stands (OMi) is included in the grant, i.e. was at the time at which it was made part of the lands of Wilton. At the N.W corner of Heath Wood is an earthwork which is about 60 yds. inside the present Wishford by. and about the same distance from the N. edge of the wood. In the copy of the charter beorh has been written for burh, a mistake which is by no means uncommon in the charters. Therefore, as I have said, I do not think that there is any doubt that the old by. of Wilton passed round what is now the site of Heath Wood (OMi). The Har Thorn of 8 was therefore at the SW. corner of that wood. The beorh (sic) is the earthwork (OMi) in the NW. part of it. The name of the Ηaethfeld of 10 survives in the name of the wood. The Stanwal ran down that part of the present by. of Wilton which runs ENE. from the SE. corner of the wood towards the Wylye. The Portweg of 11 is the road on the W. bank of the Wylye which runs down to Ditchampton and eventually to Wilton —hence its name. 12. Of, etc. on tha Ealdan Lake : ' From the Town Way to the Old Backwater.' This is that W. branch of the Wylye which the E. by. of Wilton follows for more than a mile beside the railway. This is the Ful Lac and the Lac of the two South Newton charters. 13. On tha Ealdan Ea : ' To the Old River.' This is apparently that piece of the backwater which bends ENE. towards the main river J m. NE. of Ditchampton. 14. Of, etc. on Wili Stream : ' To Wylye Stream.' The by. reaches the river just where the railway coming from the NNW. crosses it. 15. Andlang Strernes eft on Bryttan Pol: ' Along the Stream once more to the Pool of the Britons.' See landmark 1.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ A charter of the lands forming probably the SW. part of the present parish of Wilton. B.1030; K.479. RD. A.D. 956 for 958. Granted by King Edwy to the thegn Aelfheah. Hides. 4. Name : Be Noddre aet thare Pyrigean : ' By the Nadder at the Peartree.' Ident: K. Nodder River : B. Near Ugford and Wilton, on the River Nadder, Wilts. The extant copy of the survey is certainly of the Saxon age, and may be of the date of the grant. Survey. 1. Aerest of Noddre and lang thes Port Her Pathes on thone Garan: ' First from the Nadder along the Town Highway to the Gore (triangular piece of ploughland).' It is uncertain what was the E. by. of this grant. On the whole it is probable that it ran more or less along the line of the road which forms the W. by. of the park of Wilton House, the road to Stratford Tony. The survey seems to start from the bridge called Bull Bridge (OM6). The Port Herepath is the main road which runs along the S. bank of the Nadder past the hamlet of Bulbridge (OMi). The Gore would therefore be somewhere on the line of the Stratford Tony road somewhere S. of where the Herepath meets it. 2. TV and lang thare Land Ge Wirtha up to Hricg Die : (for Gewirtha read Gewyrpa) : ' Then along the Soil Heaps 1 up to the Ridge Dyke.' 3. West andlang thare Die on Beornulfes Stan : ' West along the Dyke to Beornulf's Stone.' The later mention of Ugford in this survey might in itself suggest that the grant was N. of the Nadder, and that it consisted of the N. part of Burcombe parish, the dyke being the Grimes Die of the Leofsiges Gete of the Ditchampton charters. But in that case the orientation of this landmark would demand the assumption that the survey was taken against the clock, a thing so rare in the practice of AS. surveyors as to be highly improbable in this or any 1 The reading is, I think, certain. I fancy earth thrown up to mark boundaries. The that the reference is to what were known in field-name Ball, due to the former presence later topography as 'balls,' i.e. heaps of of such landmarks, is very common in Hants.
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