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of West wood, and doubtless acquired this name 
as being the west end of the Saxon Andredes 
weald, which succeeded to the Roman Anderida 
Silva, and the ancient British Andred. This 
forest extended, on the west, from the north 
and south of the vale of the Meons* to the coast 
east of the Roman Anderida, or Saxon Andre- 
desceaster, whether this is taken as Pevensey in 
Sussex, or as Newenden in Kent. And Andre¬ 
des weald still gives the name to a great part of 
Sussex and of Kent; and, singularly enough, it 
furnishes a European name to geological strata 
extending from Wardour, in Dorsetshire, to the 
chalk border of the Paris basin. The self-sown 
trees of the woods in this neighbourhood are 
probably the lineal descendants of the trees of 
Westan-wudu, that is, of Anderida Silva; but 
the ancestors of these trees, for ages before Ro¬ 
man foot ever trod British ground, doubtless 
sheltered the Druidical worshipper of the Hea- 
* The nameless stream which rises above East Meon 
flows through West Meon, Meon Stoke, and falls into the 
Southampton water near Mean. Were its banks inhabited 
by the Roman Meanvari, and the Saxon Meonware ? An¬ 
dred signified, uninhabited . Meon is the Hebrew and Phoe¬ 
nician word for habitation or village. Thus, Baal-meon is 
the habitation of Baal, or the Sun; Britannia, from two 
Phoenician words signifying the land of tin, included all the 
south of England. 
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