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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ Swymburnan, ad intra terminum latine vocitatum Niger Puteus. Badbury was the N. part of what is now the parish of Chisledon. Its S. by. has vanished from the map. But there can be little doubt that the earthen camp was on the W. by. of Chisledon somewhere near the house at Burderop (OMi) Park, a name the mediaeval forms of which (Burithrop, 15 c, Burderopp and Bury thorp, 17c) show that the name was due to the former presence of a burh, or camp, in its neighbourhood. Symbroc is the brook at the NW. corner of the parish and the NW. corner of Burderop Wood (OMi), a brook which comes along the neighbouring part of the N. by. and after leaving the Chisledon by. forms part of the NE. by. of Wroughton. The black pit must have been just outside, but close to, this NW. corner of Chisledon. 2. Of, etc. innan Dorceri: ' From the Black Pit inside (Dorcerne ?) (Brook).' Fro the Blake Pytte wythinne Dor kerne : Ab illo loco ad intra terminum nuncupatum latine angulus tenebrosus anglice the Dorkeherne. In the first place references in the Wanborough charter B.479, in the Liddington charter K.386, in the Chisledon charter B.904, and in the present charter, make it quite clear that this landmark is the great brook which goes along the N. part of the W. by. of Chisledon, and supplies the reservoir at Coate (OMi). But the name of the brook appears in such variant forms that it is not possible to say what the original name really was. In this charter it appears as Dorceri, and in the ME. and Lat. forms Dorkerne and Dorkeherne ; in the Wanborough charter as Dorcan ; and in the Liddington charter as Dorcyn. It is almost certainly a pre-Saxon name ; and the attempt of the composer of the Latin copy of the present survey to interpret its meaning as ' dark corner ' is merely one of those efforts so common in dealing with place-names, namely to rationalise an obscure name by giving it a meaning. 3. Andlang Dorceri on tha Straet: ' Along D ... to the Street (Made Road).' Along Dorkerne on the Stret: per longum Dorkerne . . .' 1 1 Reference to the street omitted, probably by inadvertence, from the Latin copy.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ The stream forms the very short N. by. of Chisledon. From the NE. corner of the parish, about ί m. N. by W. x>f Liddington Wick (OMi), the E. by. runs S. in almost a straight line to where the Roman road from the station near Marlborough cuts the by. about f m. ESE. of Badbury Wick (OMi). This is the Brokene Stret, ' Broken Street,' of the other Chisledon charter, B.904 (see later). But the by. given in the charter does not appear to have followed this line, for the landmark above describes it as running along the brook to the street, which must mean that the brook and the street either meet or are close together at some point. Furthermore, the next landmark to which we shall come describes the by. as running ' along the street,' which the present by. of Badbury (Chisledon) does not do. It seems clear that what is now the N. end of the parish of Liddington is included in this by. though, at a reputed date forty years later, A.D. 940, it was undoubtedly (see the Liddington charter, K.386) included in the lands of Liddington. The present by. then seems tohave run along the dorca (?), which forms the N. by. of Liddington, to the NE. corner of that parish, and there, near Covingham Farm (OMi) to have met the Roman road. 4. Andlang Straet thaet on Fridan Byrgilts : ' Along the Street (Made Road) to Frida's Burialplace.' Along the Stret to Frudbyrgyll: quousque pervenias per longum pertranseundo vicum de Frudbyrgyll. The by. seems to go south down the Roman road through what is now the N. part of Liddington. But the survey is now coming either to, or near, the old S. by. of Badbury, and all that can be said with certainty about that by. is that on general grounds it may be assumed to have passed between the villages of Badbury and Chisledon, and that one of the landmarks in the charter shows that it passed near to, or perhaps through, the village of Hodson. It is not possible to say how far down the present E. by. of Chisledon the Badbury by. passed ; and it will be necessary to take all the remaining landmarks of the charter before attempting to arrive at any conclusion on this point. 5. Of, etc. on Grenan Byorh : ' From the Burialplace to Green Barrow.' Fro Frudbyrgyll to Greneburiv: A Frudbyrgyll ad Grenburw.
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