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the Saxons won their way across the fair valley of the Avon. 



To the hedge, to Ceorles hlawe. On the other side of the river 

 the county hedge is picked up again about three hundred yards 

 higher up the stream (16), running still eastwards to Gallows 

 Hill (17), the name of which I suggest is really a phonetic modi- 

 fication of Ceorles low, or hill (the C having a hard sound). 



To Craclan Crundul. This is the point at which the circuit of 

 Downton began (1). 



The remainder of the description refers, I believe, to the 

 rectangular area of the present parish of Bishopstone, which forms 

 another portion of the Downton Hundred. Though I am not so 

 familiar with these boundaries as with those of Downton, I proceed 

 to give them with such identification as I am able to add. 



Then on to the upper boundary on Ebblesburn, to Stretford. The 

 circuit of Bishopstone begins in the Ebble Valley, at Stratford Tony, 

 where the Boman road from Old Sarum crosses the stream (18). 



To Hrofa's Ridge. Going south from Stratford it joins Throope 

 drove, reaching the highest point of the ridge at the down barn 

 near the Salisbury and Blandford Boad (19). Bockbourn, on the 

 southern slope of this ridge, possibly derives its name from Hrofa. 



Along the road to the ditch at Bymera cumb. Continuing along 

 the drove it reaches Grim's Ditch at Toyd Clump (20). Here the 

 boundary turns and follows the course of Grim's Ditch westward 

 for a mile and a half to a point just beyond where the Ditch is 

 crossed by the Blandford Boad (21). Here it again turns at a 

 right-angle and runs north for four miles, crossing the Boman Boad 

 {22) and the Ebble Stream (23) a second time, and then gradually 

 rising to the steep ridge of Burcombe Down (24). It is thus 

 described in the charter: — thence slanting over three crundels, over 

 Hie street, slanting over the down to Wood-bury-hill, over berigan 

 (barley) cumb to Ebbles burn, to Beordun. (In No. 2 charter, from 

 Hrofa's ridge thus -.—along the vxir-path, to the great ditch, thence to 

 Chalk boundary (Broad Chalke), then at Wood-bury-hill, thence to 



