1G8 Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday. 



At no great distance from Bramshaw is the parish of West 

 Dean, which like it is on the borders of the county, and has a 

 tything called East Dean situated in Hampshire. We have the 

 larger portion of the parish registered in the Wiltshire Domesday 

 under the name Duene, 1 as belonging to Waleran the huntsman. 

 The .other portion is accounted for in the Hampshire Domesday by 

 no less than three entries, all of small extent under the name Dene, 2 

 two of which were held by the same proprietor Waleran. This 

 lucky, forester, who, though seemingly an Englishman, appears to 

 have escaped the general confiscation, was possessed also at the 

 time of the Domesday Survey of the neighbouring estate of 

 Gremestede (East Grrimstead). It is an interesting fact that the 

 connexion between these two manors has been continued up to the 

 present time, East Grimstead being still considered as a chapelry 

 of the parish of West Dean. 



Travelling northward along the eastern boundary of Wilts, we 

 come to Cholderton ; here we have West Cholderton, a separate 

 parish in Wiltshire, accounted for in the Record under no less than 

 four entries, 3 each registering lands of small extent, three of the 

 holdings belonging to Ernulf de Hesding. On the other hand, 

 East Cholderton, which is a tything of Amport in Hants, is clearly 

 to be identified with the Cherewartone 4 of Domesday. It has 

 been suggested that this word may be a corrupt form of what was 

 afterwards softened into Cholderton. This seems very improbable ; 

 it is far more likely that in Quar-leigh, which is close by this place, 

 we have a clue to the original form of the former syllable of the 

 word, which the Norman scribe spelt Cherewar-tone, and that the 

 name East Cholderton has been subsequently adopted from the 

 neighbouring manor on the Wiltshire border. 



An example even yet more conclusive is to be seen in Tidworth. 

 Under the name Todeworde 5 we have in the Wiltshire Domesday, 

 three entries, all of which refer to North Tidworth which is in our 

 county. One of these three manors was held by Croc, the hunts- 



1 Fol. 12a. 2 Fol. 48a, 486. {his). 

 3 Celdretone, /oJ. 716,, Celdrintone, 70a. 4 Hants Domesday, fol. 456. 

 5 Fol. 66a., 69a., 746. 



