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JOURNAL OP THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
Deanery takes in the hundreds of East Budleigh and Ottery, the 
bulk of Cliston, and a little of Wonford. Other portions of 
Wonford are included in Kenn Deanery, which, however, is mainly 
Exminster. Dunsford Deanery, on the other hand, is mostly 
Wonford, with a small portion of Exminster. Moreton Deanery 
closely corresponds with Teinbridge Hundred. Ipplepen Deanery 
is Haytor Hundred, with the detached Wonford parishes of Coombe- 
and Stoke- inteignhead, Haccombe, and the Ogwells added. Totnes 
and Woodleigh Deaneries correspond in the main with the existing 
hundreds of Stanborough and Coleridge ; but the extension west- 
ward into the hundred of Ermington seems to indicate a closer 
correspondence with the former hundred of Dippesforde, more 
especially as the whole of the rest of the hundred of Ermington is 
included with the existing hundred of Ply mp ton in the Plympton 
Deanery. Until recently the deanery of Plympton also comprised 
the Three Towns and their adjuncts, which now form a rural 
deanery of their own. The deanery of Tamerton, which repre- 
sents the hundred of Roborough, no doubt lost Plymouth and its 
sister communities ages since, in consequence of the proprietorial 
rights exercised by the Plympton Priory. 
Let us now turn to the consideration of Saxon Devon so far as 
concerns Plymouth and the immediate neighbourhood. 
The Chronicles, as I have already said, hardly render any aid. 
Plymouth is not named in them, but incidentally we have a proof 
of the insignificance of whatever settlement may have then existed 
in this vicinity, in the statement of the Saxon Chronicle, that in 
997 the Danes sailed up the Tamar, assailing Lydford, and burning 
the minster at Tavistock. Had there been any opportunity for 
the committal of special ravages on the way it could hardly fail to 
have been recorded. The only historical fact of the Saxon period 
immediately connected with this locality, is the record of the defeat 
of the Danes in 851 at Wicganbeorge. There appears little reason 
for hesitating to identify this place with Wembury, and the 
" Viking's earthwork " seems fairly acceptable as a rendering of 
the name. 1 
1 Okenbury, on the Erme, is suggested by the Rev. F. C. Hingeston- 
Randolph as possibly the site of this battle, which would not, however, 
remove it from our district ; while Mr. J. B. Davidson has adduced very 
strong arguments in favour of Wickaborough, in Berry Pomeroy. 
