By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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'jway, is the actual name of a parish in the county of Durham : and 

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

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



; High worth, 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. 



Badbury. 



The adjoining Manor of Badbury was an estate that belonged to 

 Glastonbury Abbey. The boundaries here also are described in a 

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



Wanborough. 



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 

 TPew-bergh, 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 Longespee, Earls of Sarum. 1 

 By three successive heiresses it passed — 1st to the Barons Zouche ; 

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

 Lovell, 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 the two broken effigies now in the porch of the Church, which had hitherto 

 been supposed to belong to the Longespee family and are so described in the 

 Journal of the " Archaeological Institute," April 1851, really belonged to the 

 family of Fitz William, a family living there about 1340—78. The letters 

 " Fitz william (et) sa femtne " are still legible. 



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