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The Survey of 1605 does not mention, “ The One Stone,” but goes 
direct from the river to “ Briton’s Land under Bannerdouwn,” and 
here is at one with the charter, from the stone to Beonnan-ldhe (at 
Bannerdown). Briton’s land probably indicates a former copy- 
hold tenant, as the name was still known in the parish many years 
ago. Charles Britten was parish clerk, The oldname “ Beonnan 
tegh” for Bannerdown, is easily explained to have a Saxon origin, 
Beonna being the genitive plural of beo—a bee—and thus it would 
mean the Bee-meadow or pasture. In early times lands were 
frequently leased to farmers, as Bee-pastures, the rent being so 
many jars of honey per annum to the Lord. There could scarcely 
be a more suitable plan for bee-feeding than just urder the thymy 
sheep pasture of Bannerdown facing south and south east, and 
there are still two fields here retaining similar names, written 
now Baw-combe or Boo-combe, which may well have been 
originally Bco-combe or bee-valley. 
_ The Saxon document here does not give details of the bounds 
but goes direct to the Weaver. The Survey takes us a short way 
on the Bannerdown Road and then along the fences of two 
fields called ‘‘Bawcombe,” and then into the Shockerwick Lane. 
We follow it, keeping our eyes on the eastern boundary of the 
adjoining fields, to the ‘“‘ house of Richard Price.” No such name 
is in the list of tenants at the time of the Survey, but it may be a 
mis-spelling for Lichard Pierce, who lived up that way and is 
named in the Survey. There are several cottages, but which was 
Richard Price’s I have not made out. From Price’s house we are 
to find S. Giles Chapel, but that no longer exists save in the name 
of the Chapel Farm belonging to Shockerwick.* We can only 
of the bounds taken in 1775 ‘‘Cannard’s Grave” is named, at the head of 
Morries Lane, which is the old name of the lane we came up by from 
Avondale House. 
* Collinson in his History of Somerset speaks of an old building the remains of 
which the inhabitants imagine to have been part of a Parish Church, which was 
built by one of the Husseys who owned Shockerwick. 
