114 The Early History of the Upper Wylye Valley. 
in Longbridge, just as one Ubba left his name at Upton Lovel, men- 
tioned above. We may dwell for a moment on this Longbridge 
name. It has entirely disappeared from maps, and is used only 
by some of the elder generation of inhabitants. It lies at the 
bottom of the northern slope of Lord’s Hill, near springs, and may 
be regarded as the earliest part of the Longbridge settlement. 
Indeed the central part of the village must at that time have been 
a large marsh, and the ancient British habitations are all along the 
bottom of the slope. The pronunciation of the name is Upinton, 
or Uppington, but the same slight corruption of Ubban-ton (the 
genitive of Ubba) Ubba’s-ton, occurs at Upton Lovel, anciently 
Ubbantun,! and many examples of this syllable -ing are later 
corruptions of -an, as Dr. Guest has shown ;” for example, Abingdon 
is Aebban-dun, that is, Abba’s-dun. At the end of the high ground 
the invaders paused, and the woodland below them, Selwood, was 
their boundary, their “Mere.” Their names are numerous, and to 
those given above may be added Hegtred at Heytesbury, «e., 
Hegtred’s-bury. 
We get a glimpse of their old worship in names of places near, 
though not actually in the valley itself: the name of the god 
Woden is seen in Wanstrow; Scratchbury is the hill of a Norse 
demon Skratti, whose name appears also in Derbyshire; the deified 
hero Waermund is seen in the name Waermunds-tre, which is 
mentioned in a charter as a boundary-mark at Tisbury. Perhaps 

Brightricstone as late as 1291, in the Taxation of Pope NicholasIV. Later 
authorities have copied Hoare blindly, and even Hoare himself is not con- 
sistent, for while in Hundred of Heytesbury, p. 3, he says ‘‘ Brixton was un- 
doubtedly Petra HKcbryhta,” on p. 4 he says “ Brixton, a title derived most 
probably from Brictric the Saxon, who held it tempore Edwardi Regis.” 
In a letter, of which Mr. Whistler sent me a copy, Dr. Clifford, formerly 
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, gives the Domesday derivation of — 
Brixton, and adds ‘‘ thus it appears that there is no connection between “the — 
rock of Aigbert and Brixton.” 
In the same way it has been suggested that certain large stones at Kingston 
are ‘‘ King’s-stones’’; that again is guess-work; but the name is King’s-ton, 
because part of it belonged to the Earl of Cornwall, and was hence connected 
with the Crown. - 
1 Hoare, Heytesbury Hundred, p. 190. 
? Orig. Celt., ii., 329, 

