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but few names of places in our parish which are not to be traced to 
an Anglo-Saxon source. A few instances taken from the names of 
the tithings, and some of the principal places in the parish, will 
soon prove the truth of this statement. 
Trow ze is spelt in old deeds Treowle. It does not look unlike 
an abbreviation of Treow-lege, and so an equivalent to Wood-leigh, 
a name not unknown in Wiltshire, and recently adopted by one of 
our neighbours for his house; the Anglo-Saxon word for tree being 
treow. In like manner Bishopstrow, near Warminster, is clearly 
bisceopes-treow. 
Woottey in old deeds is written Wif-lege. Amongst the holders 
of land, in the time of Domesday, was one Vir, who possessed a hide 
of land (about 100 or 120 acres) in Bode-berie (now Budbury), a 
much larger tract of ground bearing that name in older times than 
now. It may possibly have embraced a portion of what is now in 
the Woolley Tything. The tything itself, therefore, may perhaps 
have been called from his name. 
Leicu and Hotr respectively denote the flat pasture land and 
the wood land part of the parish, for such is the original meaning 
of the Anglo-Saxon words. 
Winstey we find written in Domesday Book Wintres-lege, that 
is, the cold or wintry Leigh. Its situation corresponds with its 
name, being upon perhaps the highest ground in the parish. The 
name of a tract of ground situated at the top of Grip wood (also 
very high ground) is still Winder Leaze, or, as it is sometimes spelt, 
Winter Leaze. 
AtwortH is in old documents written Atan-wurthe or Atten- 
worthe. This may well be supposed to be derived from the 
Anglo-Saxon words, Atan-weord, that is, Oat-village; the latter 
of the Saxon words meaning a farm, manor, or estate. Oat-lands 
is not an unknown name in the parish of Bradford. It was the 
name of one of the royal residences at the close of the sixteenth 
and the commencement of the seventeenth century. King James’s 
proclamation enjoining conformity to the Book of Common Prayer 
was issued from the royal “manor of Otelands,” July 16, 1604. 
1 Cardwell’s Documentary Annals, ii. 60, 
