124 The Early History of the Upper Wylye Walley. 
of land which the Church of the manor possesses,” mentioned in 
Domesday Book. Also, at Whitecliff, which is near Smoke Alley, 
(Hoare, p. 7), a tithing of Brixton, a holding of 14 hides is 
apparently a separate holding of the Abbot of Glastonbury. 
Of course the architecture and monuments in the churches 
plainly show the changes which time brings. Thus, there is an 
excellently carved head of Edward I. or II. built into the wall of 
the Vicarage at Norton, and many more significant things might 
be found by looking. For example, a curious wooden Jacobean 
monument in Hill Deverill church is in memory of Sir Henry Coker, 
a “King’s man,” who was at Worcester fight. He is depicted 
resting his head upon a “ Bibell,” and his feet upon the “Status.” 
There is also some fine Jacobean work at Sherrington. 
Pursuing the same method as before, we find that oral traditions 
about the land still give us glimpses into its history. Some field- 
names which are still in use are as old as the days when Glastonbury 
Abbey was the owner, for we find them in a Glastonbury survey 
of the 13th century. We may pass over the shadowy owners in 
Early English times, till we find much of the upper part of the 
valley in the hands of the Abbey. The wealth of this magnificent 
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' Hoare (Heytesbury Hundred, p. 38) gives a Deverill document of which 
he tries to explain the names. They are the bounds of an estate of 20 hides 
given by Edgar to the Priory of Ellandune. ‘A Defereal ad veterem fossam; 
et sic per fossam ad Langanbeorgam (longum collem) ; inde ad viam militarem ; 
per viam ad mansionem Pudelenham dictam; inde ad Henleguam, (campum 
sic dictum); inde ad mansionem Peocesham dictam; a mansione — 
ad viam patriam; a via ad veterem fossam; a fossa ad viam mili- | 
tarem; per viam ad collem Eferbeorh [i.e., collem aprinum] dictum; 
a colle iterum ad Defereal.”’ He identifies Langanbeorgam with Long 
Knoll, near Maiden Bradley; Eferbeorh as Bore Hill, between Long- 
bridge and Warminster, but ‘‘can make nothing of either Pudelenham or — 
Peocesham.” Now it is manifestly impossible that an estate of twenty hides 
should reach from Bore Hill, which is a mile from Warminster on the Deverill 
Road, to Long Knoll, at Maiden Bradley. Again, that hill is probably Bore, - 
(not Boar, Hill, as Hoare translates collis aprinus, by an unintentional pun;) " 
and it took its name from the thirteenth century family of that name. But — 
with the aid of the local names we may, with some probability, see in the — 
“military road” that which runs along the ridge to Great Ridge Wood; 
Langabeorh may be the long hill which rises south of Longbridge, now — 
