50 Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday. 
Osmund, Sarisperiz, or Orp Sarum, could have been 
little more than a military fortress; the town grew round 
the Cathedral which he founded there, carrying out in 
this the intentions of his immediate predecessor, Bishop 
Herman. Now at Laverstock and Winterbourn Ford, 
both places in the neighbourhood of Old Sarum, you 
have in Domesday, one Saric entered as an owner (W. 
Domesd. 143), And he held these manors as Thane-land, 
and in the former case had inherited the estate from a 
brother, by name Gust. Is it impossible that, after all, 
SARIS-BERIE may mean simply the “ fortress,” 
be the “hill,” of Saric, a name, at all events, that seems 
to have been borne by holders of land in the neighbourhood. 
or it may 
But this of course is mere conjecture, and must be taken 
for what each thinks it worth. 
ToLLARD ;—one portion of what is Tollard Royal parish was 
in the days of the Confessor held by one Torr (W. 
Domesd. 102) ; possibly the name may be from him, and 
may mean the enclosure of Tort :—as though Tol-geard, 
contracted afterwards into Zollard. 
Wirnennam ; this Name (also spelt Wittenham, and Witenham), 
was that of a parish in the Hundred of Bradford (See W. 
Domesd. 26). Though the name is now lost, a list of its 
Incumbents from 1299—1421 is still preserved. In 
1428 it was united to Farleigh Hungerford, and is the 
small portion of that parish which is in Wilts. At the 
time of Domesday it was held under the Bishop of 
Coutance by a tenant of the name of Roger (Jbid, 26.) 
By comparing entries in the Exon Domesday for Somerset 
relating to neighbouring estates held by the same Bishop 
(see 77. 128, 132, 184,) we can hardly help the conclusion 
that he was the same as Roger WireEn, and that from his 
surname /iten-ham derives its appellation. 
Woottey ;—This is the name of a tything in Bradford-on-Avon 
parish. In Domesday, one Ur (or W ir) as a King’s 
Thane, held Bopeprriz (W. Domesd. 139), a name now 
