408 Notes on the History of Wroughton. 



in the valley somewhere to the east below Wroughton where the 

 Eey still flows on its way to join the Thames. 



Wertune. 



Wertune was the name by which the manor of Overton or Upper 

 Wroughton was known in the Domesday entry. It was then held 

 by Humphry de L'Isle and consisted of ten hides of land and one 

 mill. In the twelfth century this manor was granted to the 

 Abbot of Tewkesbury by Reginald de Dunstanville, of Castle 

 Combe, who had married Adeliza de Insula, the daughter and 

 heiress of Humphrey de L'Isle. 



The history of Castle Combe from 1216 down to the dissolution 

 of the monasteries shows that the Abbot of Tewkesbury held one 

 knight's fee of the Dunstanville family during that time' which 

 is recorded as worth £10 in 1338 A.D. 



The name of the manor was spelt in many ways in this Castle 

 Combe history : — Werston, Worston, Wer'werston, Over Werston ;, 

 Uvere Wereston in 1272 A.D. in Testa de Neville; and Over 

 Worston in Assize Roll (1001) in 1281 A.D. 



The Calendar Charter Bolls gives other variants of the name, such 

 as "Wourfton," as one of the manors belonging to the Bishop of 

 Winchester in 1285, " Wertona " in 1300, and " Wrfton " in a grant 

 of free warren in their demesne lands to the Prior and Convent of 

 St. Swithin, Winchester. 



These varied forms of spelling resulted in the modern form 

 " Wroughton " which first appears about the time of Henry YII. 



After the dissolution of Tewkesbury Abbey, Over Wroughton or 

 Overton, was bestowed by Henry VIII.^ as a "Grant to William 

 Rycheman alias Webbe of site and chief . . . messuage of the manor 

 of Over Wroughton Wilts, and two messuages and tenements called 

 Turneys and Uffcote in Over Wroughton wbich belonged to the late 

 Monastery of St. Mary Tewkesburye, Gloucester." 



The family name of "Wroughton" seems to have been originally 

 spelt much in the same way as was that of the village ; but though 

 the Wroughton family lived for over two hundred years at Broad 

 Hinton, their only recorded connection with Wroughton village 



^ Letters and Papers of Henry VIII., May, 1540. 



