46 



Gleanings from the Wiltshire Domesday. 



name is that of a Hundred, as well as a Parish, and is no 

 doubt derived originally from some owner named Alwarcl. 

 It is interesting however to observe that the whole estate of 

 Alward-berie, which was afterwards granted to the 

 Cathedral at Salisbury, belonged at the Conquest to the 

 Canons of Lisieux, the larger portion of the same being 

 held by a priest called Alwarcl (W. Domesd. 56, 196) . 

 This was by no means an uncommon name. One Alward 

 held the church at Heytesbury {Ibid, 16) ; — another, a 

 King's Thane, possessed SwallowclifT {Ibid, 133) ; — a third 

 was an under-tenant at Staninges (Standlinch,) Ibid, 103. 

 The holder of Cunuche (Ibid, 133), (Knook, in Heytes- 

 bury) was Alward Collinc. 

 Bishopstrow ; — near Warminster, literally Biscojoes-treow, i.e. 



BishopVTree, or possibly BishopVCross, if the latter 

 portion of the name be understood in the sense in which 

 it is used in Acts x., 39, " Whom they slew and hanged 

 on a tree. }> In any case the name is a traditional memorial 

 of 8. Aldhelm, the first Bishop of Sherborn (A.D. 705), 

 when the diocese comprehended all the country west of 

 S el wood, and the founder of monasteries at Malms- 

 bury, Bradford-on-Avon, and Frome (See Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., viii., 62) . The church at Bishopstrow is dedicated 

 to S. Aldhelm. This good and great man died on one of 

 his missionary journeys at Doulting, near Frome, and that 

 Church, as well as the one at Bishopstrow, is dedicated to 

 him. 



Bishopston") I name these together because the latter is simply 

 Bushton J a corruption of the former. In Wilts there are three 

 estates called by this name — 1. Bishopston, in South 

 Wilts, formerly termed Eblesbourn (or Ebbesbourn 

 Episcopi), from having belonged to the Bishops of 

 Winchester. — 2. Bishopston, in North Wilts, not far 

 from Ramsbury, so called from having been part of the 

 possessions, first of all of the ancient see of Ramsbury, 

 and afterwards of that of Sarum. — 3. Bushton (plim 



