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hes wret Sat it comet td Bris- 
nodes landschare secu . t . n 
(? sceo-wyrhtan) ; ford be is land- 
schare inne Swinbréch; for’ be 
broke inne Pumberig; ut purh 
Pumberig inne Tefleford; ford 
mid stréme Sat it cumet té Ailf- 
werdes landimare at Wutenham; 
Bradford-upon-Avon. 
right; so along on the right till 
you come to Brisnode’s balk! (the 
shoe-maker’s?); forth by his balk 
to Swinbrook ;? forth by the brook 
to Pomeroy; out through Pome- 
roy to Tellesford; forth with the 
stream till you come to Ailf- 
werd’s landmark at Wutenham;* 
1 Brisnode’s balk. By this word, which has not yet passed out of use in Wilt- 
shire, we translate the Anglo-Saxon ‘ land-schare,’ which denotes the ridges or 
other boundaries, by which one estate was divided from another. This dand- 
share oust be on the eastern side of Trowle common, commencing possibly from 
the point where the road from Bradford to Trowbridge leaves the former parish. 
In Andrews and Dury’s map (1773) the stream which flows into the Biss at this 
point is called ‘The Were,’ and is represented as rising near Southwick. This 
may perhaps explain Camden’s statement, that Trowbridge is situated on the 
Were. [Britannia (Gibson’s edition), i. 199.] In the accompanying map, the Were 
is represented as forming the south eastern boundary of Bradford parish. This is 
not the case with respect to the present boundaries, several portions on the eastern 
side of the stream being in Trowbridge. Originally all this part was common land. 
As from time to time the common has been enclosed, allotments of various portions 
of it have been made to the different parishes, whose inhabitants had the right 
of pasturage upon it. In olden times, possibly the stream formed the boundary 
of ‘the Manor.’ 
2 Swinbrook. This name has now been lost. I can have little doubt however, 
that is was the original name of the brook which forms, for the most part, the 
southern boundary of Winfield (now spelt Wingfield or Winkfield) parish. This 
brook rises in Pomeroy, and flows in a south-eastern direction, till it empties 
itself into the Were. Winfield, in Domesday Book is written Wine-fel. Does 
the name of the brook give us the key to the original name of the parish? In 
the immediate vicinity are several fields that bear the name of Hook-woods, 
which looks very much like a corruption of Hog-woods, a name still preserved 
at Hinton Charterhouse, about three miles from the spot in question. 
3 Wutenham, This name is now lost. We meet with the name ‘ Withenham,’ 
however, in the Wilts Institutions, several presentations to the Church of that 
parish being therein recorded. The Church stood, most probably, half-way be- 
tween Westwood Church and Farleigh Bridge, ata point where four roads meet. 
Tradition preserves the fact of there having been a church there, and a separate 
hamlet and parish, called Rowley alias Withenham. In 1428, the church being 
dilapidated, Walter Lord Hungerford obtained permission to unite ‘‘ Withenham 
alias Rowley” Church and parish with Farleigh. This is the reason why, to 
this day, Farleigh Hungerford parish stands partly in Somerset and partly in 
Wilts. There were two distinct manors. Withenham, held by the Hungerfords 
under the Lord Zouche ; Rowley, held by them under the Abbess of Shaftesbury. 
The name and manor of Rowley still survives. Captain Gaisford’s property, 
