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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\
over the Open Land where the Heath grows to Dyke
Gate.'
The heath was at the SE. corner of the parish. Along
the whole of the S. by. of the parish runs an old dyke (OMi)
which is marked as (sic) a Roman road. At the very SE.
corner of the parish a road passes through the dyke ; and
it was no doubt the gap in the dyke formed by this road
which is the Die Geat of the charter.
11. Thet west and lang Die on Wylle Weg : ' Then west
along the Dyke to the Way or Track of the Spring.'
The by. follows the dyke for more than a mile to the
SW. corner of the parish, where a track coming up from the
SW. crosses it and goes N. more or less along the W. by.
of Stockton. This track is probably on the line of the
Wylle Weg.
12. Thaet and lang Wylle Weges on Widancum : ' Then
along Spring Way to Wide Combe.'
Following the above track northwards the W. by. comes
to a large combe, along the bottom of which it runs practically
to the Wylye river.
13. Thonne andlang Weges eft on Ο den Ford 1 : ' Then
along the Way (probably for Wylye) to Oda's Ford once
more.' 2
Odenford is mentioned in a charter of Sherrington given
in the Wilton cartulary. The ford was evidently at the
NE. corner of Sherrington, which was probably at that
time at that point on the Wylye called Giggan Street
Hatches (OM6).
14. Of Ο dan For da on Codan Ford: ' From Oda's
Ford to Coda's Ford.'
See landmark 1.
Charter of the lands of Badbury, now part of the parish
of Chisledon, about 3 m. SE. of Swindon.
B.598. Not in K.
RD. A.D. 901.
Granted by King Eadweard to the New monastery at
Winchester.
1 Weges is certainly wrong. The Weges
of the previous landmark has caught the
copyist's eye. Wilig would be probably
correct.
2 The word eft has been misplaced by the
copyist, as the survey began at Codan Ford.
The similarity of the names of the two fords
led probably to the oversight.