Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday. 
name is that of a Hundred, as well as a Parish, and is no 
doubt derived originally from some owner named Alward. 
It is interesting however to observe that the whole estate of 
Alward-berie, which was afterwards granted to the 
Cathedral at Salisbury, belonged at the Conquest to the 
Canons of Lisieux, the larger portion of the same being 
held by a priest called Alward (W. Domesd. 56, 196). 
This was by no means an uncommon name. One Alward 
held the church at Heytesbury (/éid, 16) ;—another, a 
King’s Thane, possessed Swalloweliff (é¢d, 133) ;—a third 
was an under-tenant at Staninges (Standlinch,) Jdid, 103. 
The holder of Cunuche (Jé:d, 138), (Knook, in Heytes-. 
bury) was Alward Colline. 
BisHopstrow ;—near Warminster, literally Biscopes-treow, 1.e. 
Bishop’s-Tree, or possibly Bishop’s-Cross, if the latter 
portion of the name be understood in the sense in which 
it is used in Acts x., 39, “ Whom they slew and hanged 
ona free.” In any case the name is a traditional memorial 
of §. Aldhelm, the first Bishop of Sherborn (A.D. 705), 
when the diocese comprehended all the country west of 
Selwood, and the founder of monasteries at Malms- 
bury, Bradford-on-Avon, and Frome (See Wilts Arch. 
Mag., viii., 62). The church at Bishopstrow is dedicated 
to S. Aldhelm. This good and great man died on one of 
his missionary journeys at Doulting, near Frome, and that 
Church, as well as the one at Bishopstrow, is dedicated to 
him. 
ea ao I name these together because the latter is simply 
BusHTon 
a corruption of the former. In Wilts there are three 
estates called by this name—l. BisHorston, in South 
Wilts, formerly termed LEblesbourn (or Ebbesbourn 
Episcopi), from having belonged to the Bishops of 
Winchester.—2. BisHorston, in North Wilts, not far 
from Ramsbury, so called from having been part of the 
possessions, first of all of the ancient see of Ramsbury, 
and afterwards of that of Sarum.—3. Busuton (olim 
