Names from those of ancient Owners or Occupiers. 89 
Frisic personal names, which without doubt serve to interpret many 
local names in Wilts. 
An example or two shall be given, first of all, from some of the 
Anglo-Saxon charters. 
There is a place in All Cannings which is now called Sr. ANNE’s 
Hitt, but, as it has been shown in the pages of this Magazine, 
(vol. xi., p. 9,) it is really a memorial of an ancient owner of the 
name of Anne, the occurrence of such names as these—Anan stén 
( = Anne’s stone) Anne’s thorn—Anne’s crundell—in the charter of 
Stanton Berners, the immediately adjoining parish, clearly proving 
it. Again, in the charter relating to Dauntsey, we have named 
among the points of boundary, Strenges buryeles ( = Streng’s burial- 
place), a name now only to be recognized in Stranger’s Farm.? So 
in the Hyde Chartulary, in the land-limits of Collingbourn Kingston, 
we have Guthredes-berg ( = Guthred’s barrow), a name now changed 
into GopsBury.$ 
Of those, for the interpretation of which we may look to Domesday 
Book, an account has already been given in this Magazine. Two 
q may be referred to by way of illustration. The place vow called 
Fittleton is in Domesday (p. 118) called Vrrexetoz ,° and theowner 
in the days of the Confessor was one Vrret, and it is no stretch of 

imagination to believe that from this early owner, or some namesake 
1See Cod. Dipl. 483. We have similar instances of this tendency to see 
memorials of Saints in local names in designations given to other parishes in 
Wilts. Sranron Berners has been transformed into Stanton St, Bernard, 
whilst Srratrorp Tony, so called from Alice de Toni, Countess of Warwick, 
_ has been gravely intrepreted as Stratford St. Anthony. In like manner 
_ Martin, near Bedwyn, supposed to be called from an old chapel presumably 
dedicated to St. Martin, is simply mer-téin (—boundary village), and was 
formally spelt Marton or Merton. In the Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. I, the name occurs 
‘as Mar-thorn, as though it were so called from some boundary thorn planted 
_ there. Anyhow the name has nothing to do with any medieval Saint. 
. 2 Cod. Dipl. 263. 
3 Hyde Chartulary, (Rolls Series) p. 107, 
' 4 Wilts Magazine, xiii., 42. 
5In a charter relating to Enford, an immediately adjoining parish, we have a 
_ boundary-point described as ‘‘ Fitelan slides crundel” ¢.¢., the ‘‘ crundel by 
‘Fitel’s slade.” Cod. Dipl. 1110. 
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