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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… on Orcheston down may have been the site of intrusive Saxon burials. 16 Orcheston St. Mary had 26 poll-tax payers …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… and is so called from the etymology of it in the Saxon language, signifying a fenny or marshy place. This …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… written Ordgareswice, and probably took its name from some Saxon owner of it. There is nothing worthy of notice in this …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… which was Dorpentune, a name partly British and partly Saxon, signifying, the village, or street, where the head or … of the village, the river Cray, so called from the Saxon word Crecca, signifying a small brook or rivulet, takes …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… here. The office of rural dean was not unknown to our Saxon ancestors, as appears by the laws of king Edward the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… OTFORD. NEXT to Shoreham southward lies OTFORD, called in Saxon, OTTANFORD, in the book of Domesday, OTEFORT, and in … that the syllable an, when it is the second in the Saxon name of a place, is generally left out in our modern …
Magna Britannia
… written Aldestowe, which, as the termination is evidently Saxon, is more likely to be a corruption of Ealde-stowe: it …
A History of the County of Oxford
… standing in the bailey, has not been verified. 7 The Anglo-Saxon name Worton ( Ortune), meaning a settlement by a bank …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 1. Heming, op. cit. 456; Birch, op. cit. i, 329. The Anglo-Saxon boundaries of Teddington are given in Heming, op. cit. …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a north-south course, was of strategic importance in Pagan-Saxon times. It was probably to prevent incursions from the …