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By Rev. Canon RAVENHILL, M.A., R.D. 



Vicar of Buckla.nd Ncuion nan Plush, 



JT^HE Titliing of PIusli is a detached portion of the 

 large parish of Buckland Xewton, called 

 Boclande Abbas in olden days. 



Our late Dorset poet, the Rev. W. Barnes, 

 said '•' Newton " described Buckland as the new 

 enclosure, Alton, the adjoining parish, being 

 the old enclosure. Bocland, according to 

 Blackstone, means land held by book or 

 charter, as opposed to Folkland, which was 

 land held by common consent. 



Plusli is mentioned under the name of Plis in the Rentalia et 

 Costumariuni of Glastonbury Abbey (cf. Somerset Record Society, 

 Vol. v., p. 105). It formed part of the Manor of Buckland 

 Newton, and was given with it, according to John of Glastonbury, 

 by King Ethelwolf (838-857) to the Abbey of Glastonbury. 



The late Canon C. W. Bingham told me Plis meant a coomb or 

 dell, I knoAV not what authority he had for this derivation. (My 

 friend, the Rev. C. H. Mayo, cannot find Plis in the Anglo-Saxon 

 Dictionary.) 



In the year 851 a great Danish invasion took place. If Xettle- 

 combe Tout and the Roman Fosse could speak thoy would 

 probably tell some stirring stories of those terrible times. 



