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THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ Land Scare : ' Then along the Nadder till it reaches Eatstan's Boundary.' The by. passes up the Nadder to the S. of Ugford village to a point f m. E. by S. of the church at Burcombe. 8. That hit sticath up to Herpothe : ' Till it ascends to the Highway.' This is a point on the Salisbury road \ m. E. of Burcombe church. Charter of the northern part of the lands of Bremhill, m. NW. of Calne. (The lands are really the lands of Avon, Foxham and Kellaways, in Bremhill.) B.716, 717. Not in K. RD. A.D. 937. Granted by King Aethelstan, to Malmesbury abbey. Hides. 10. Names : Broemel, Bremel. Ident. K. None ; B. Bremhill, Wilts. The survey, which is extant, is of post-Conquest date. The descriptive matter being in Latin, it need only be given in translation. Survey. 1. ' First from the place called Rock (?) Combe (Wrok- ••cumbe) to Boundary Dean (Merkendene).' The landmarks which follow show pretty clearly that Wrokcumb is the combe S. of Catcombe Wood (OMi). The boundary dean seems to be that through which a brook flows, on the by. fur. W. of the little hamlet of Catcombe (OMi). 2. ' And from Boundary Dean (Merkedene) straight by the watercourse to the Street (Made Road).' The watercourse is the brook which flows W. from Catcombe (OMi) and then just S. of Stockham Marsh Farm towards Hare Street Farm (OMi), the name of which is derived from the AS. herestraet. This shows that the street of this landmark was on the line of the road running SE. from Hare Street Farm. 1 3. ' From that Street to Cada's Bourne(Cadeburne).' 1 For description of this road see Arcb. Journ. vol. lxxv, 1918, road 22, p. 82.
THE SAXON LAND CHARTERS OF WILTSHIRE. I ~J\ The name Cadanburna seems to have been applied in the survey to the brook which flows past Barn Bridge (OMi) into the Avon at a point 3 fur. NNW. of Stokes Farm (OMi), but only to the lower part of the brook. The name Cat brook occurs on OM6 at a point about J m. ENE. of Gaston's Farm (OMi), where a brook coming from the SE. joins the main brook : and this brook is called in OM6 Cat brook. This is apparently the nomenclature adopted by the surveyors. But the names Catcombe and Catcombe Wood on the E. by. of the parish (OMi) show that the name Cadanburna was also applied to the brook which forms the S. by. of this grant, the upper part of which the surveyors denominate by the general term stream. 4. ' And from the head of that Bourne (Burne) straight to the Avon.' The term ' head' seems to be used in a loose sense here to mean the point where the modern Cat brook begins to form the by. of the grant. It joins the Avon, as has been said, about 3 fur. NNW. of Stokes Farm (OMi). 5. ' And so straight by the Avon (Avene) to the Ford of the Cross (Cristemaleford!).' It is doubtful whether this reference is to the ford itself, or to the land boundary of Christian Malford. This copy of the survey is not of the AS. age ; and it is impossible to say whether it goes back to one of that age. But, as far -as AS. surveyors are concerned, it is not by any means their practice to speak of the by. of a neighbouring land-unit merely by the name of the place. They use in such instances •some expression such as Cingtuninga Gemaere. 6. ' And from there straight to . . . (huckeam).' 1 7. ' And from there to the Great Tree (le Grete Trowe).' 8. ' And from there to the Sandpit (Sand Seteth).' 2 9. ' And from there to the Steep Slope (le Clif).'' 10. ' And so along the Steep Slope to the Path of the Stile (Stigelweye).' 11. ' And from that Way to Black Marsh (Blake(mo) more).' 3 12. 'And from the Marsh to the'above-mentioned place, namely, Rook Combe (Wroekumbe).' 1 Possibly AS. hoc-hamm, ' Hookham,' an enclosure in a nook; or, perhaps an L-shaped lenclosure. 2 I have read this as AS. Sand Seath. 3 For the meaning of mor see p. 215.
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