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way, 18 the actual name of a parish in the county of Durham : and 

 80 forth. In Wiltshire we have other instances: Hilldrop near 

 Ramsbury ought to be Hill-thorp ; Eastrop and Westrop, near 

 Hi^hworth, are merely corruptions of East and West-thorp. 

 Burderop also, like Chiseldon belonged to Hyde Abbey ; and in the 

 chartulary of that Monastery, in the British Museum, there is a 

 great number of ancient documents relating to Chiseldon and its 

 hamlets. 



Badbxjkt. 

 The adjoining Manor of Badbury was an estate that belonged to 

 Glastonbury Abbey. The boundaries here also are described m a 

 Saxon Charter, and one of the marks is called "The Ten Stones. 



Wanborotjgh. 



It was mentioned before that from the place called Nythe Bridge 

 two Roman roads branched off, one to Newbury, the other to Marl- 

 borough. Within the fork so made stands Wanborough. 



A portion of the parish belonged, at the Norman Survey, to the 

 Bishop of Winchester, not for himself, but for the maintenance of a 

 Monastery there ; and that is all that Domesday Book says about 

 TFem-bero-h, for so it spells the name. But from other sources it is 

 quite certain that a very little after that period the principal lord- 

 ship was the estate of the great House of Longesp^e, Earls of Sarum.^ 

 By three successive heiresses it passed-lst to the Barons Zouche; 

 then to the old Barons Holand; and from them to the Barons 

 LoveU of Titchmarsh, in Northamptonshire. During the latter 

 period it came into the hands of Francis Viscount Lovell, the 

 celebrated favourite of Richard III. Wanborough afterwards 

 belonged to the Darells of Littlecote. 



In the reign of William Rufus and in the year 1091, long before 



1 During the present visit of the Society to Wanborough it was ascertained 

 that t^e two brLn effigies now in the porch of the Church, which had hi herto 

 been supposed to belong to the Longespee family and -^«,f° J^f "^ed m he 



]ZnJ!i the « Ax-ch.dogical I-ti^^^^'' ^^"^i^^ ' ^^78 The lettt 

 family of Fitz William, a family Imng there about lo40-78. ihe letters 



" Fitz William (et) sa femme" are still legible. 



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