96 The Names of Places in Wiltshire. 
ground) either dedicated to him, or supposed to be under his 
protection; and that thus Woden was here, as in Germany, the 
supreme god whom the Saxons, Franks, and Alamans concurred in 
worshipping.” 
Another of the deities worshipped by our hadi Bead forefathers 
in the days of their heathendom was Trw, from whom we derive the 
name for the third day of the week, Tiwes-deg (= Tuesday}. He 
would seem to have corresponded with Mars, and was worshipped as a 
god of battle. We have the name of this deity in such compounds as 
Teéwes-born (= Tiwes-thorn), in the charter relating to Purton 
(Cod. Dipl., 174)—Tweuwes-den, in that referring to Chelworth (Cod. 
Dipl., 329)—and possibly also in Zsan-med, in that concerning 
Alton Priors (Nod. Dipl., 1035), a name now known as Teow’s-mead, 
the designation of a farm close by Wansdyke. It is not impossible 
that in the name Tis-Bury, a parish in the south-west of the county, 
we have a like memorial of Saxon heathendom. In a charter of 
Cnit (A.D. 1023), amongst the boundaries of an estate at Hanitine 
(Hannington), in Hants. we have “'Z%s-/edh,” which, if the place 
could be identified, would no doubt be Tis-/ey. 
One other illustration under this head shall be given—others will 
be found in the lists appended to this general account. An ancient 
encampment on the downs, not far from Heytesbury, is called 
Scratcusury Camp. I venture to suggest that the former portion 
of the name is from the same source as the Danish and Swedish 
skratti (= ademon). Notice has already been drawn to the idea 
so common in ancient times of works like these being carried out 
by the help of evil spirits (See above § 17). There is a Seratby in 
Norfolk, and in Norway we find Skradascar as the name of a haunted 
rock on the coast. 
61. (6) Of names which illustrate the early Christianity of our 
forefathers, the following may be named :— 
Bisporstrow. A village near Warminster, originally Biscopes-treow 
(= Bishop’s tree), a memorial of the good St. Aldhelm, 
first Bishop of Sherborne (A.D. 705—709), to whom the 
church is dedicated, and who, as he founded the monas- 
teries both at Bradford and Frome, no doubt visited this 

