Downton and Cerdic 519 AD
Birthplace of King Arthur's Kingdom of Wessex and England
by Michael Alwyn Slade
Copyright 2010 ©
Appendix c.
| Placenames. The extra-ordinary fact with Wessex place-names is their almost universal "Saxon" roots. | |
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Alderbury, Fortified place of Alders, - or after Alward the Priest Allington, Allas-tun Amesbury, Fort of Ambrosius Arne, Eagle Ashurst, Ash trees hill Badbury, Baddas fort Barford, Boars ford Bath, Caer Baddon Bemerton, Bymeras-tun Bicton, Bis settlement Blandford, tranquil ford Bodenham, Settlement of the prophet Bokerley Dyke Bramshaw, Bramble wood Bransgore, Brans triangle of land Breamore, Bramble Moor, damp place Breoton, Britain Brighton, Beorthelm's tun, settlement Britford, Britons ford Brokenhurst, Brocests wooden hill Brownsea Island, Brunoces = island Burgate Cross Gate to the Fort Burley, Fortified clearing Cadnam, Cada's home Calshot, Cald Shaw, Cerdics Ore Charford, Cerdics Ford Charlton, Caerlton, Settlement of the Ceourls, Freemen Chichester, Cicces Ceastre Chippenham, Cippa's meadow Christchurch - Twynham, twyn, tweox - neam - between two rivers Cirencester, Caer Ceri Clarendon, Clover covered hill Clearbury, Caerl Burgh, Freemens Fort Coombe Bisset, The meadow Corfe, Gap or Pass Cornwall, Cornouaille, Cirnovii Cernw Cranborne, Cran = cranes Damerham, Doemers-home Devon, Dumnonia Dorset, Durotriges, Dorsaetes Pitton, Place of the Hawks Quidhampton, Muddy home farm Downton, Dun ton, Downs settlement Eling, Edlas followers Ellingham, Aeoelingahem, Aeolings - settlement, Edlas Fordingbridge, ford bridge Frankenbury Fort of the Franks, Gauls, - Godsale camp Fritham, secure settlement among the trees Fugglestone, Fugeles-tun Furzey Island, Gorse Glamorgan, Ergying Gloucester, Caer Gloui Greenslade Bottom Grimstead, Grims Place, DevilsPlace Hale, corner - of an estate Hampshire, Hantescyr Hamptworth, Settlement in the clearing Hamworthy, hamme = oysters Harnham Settlement of the Hares |
Hatchet Green Hengistbury, Hedenesburia - not Hengist! Homington, Hill Hyde - one ploughmans land Idmiston, Edhelmes-tun Ibsley, Ibs Clearing Isle of Wight, Ynys Weith Kendric, Cynrics tribe Kent, Caent Kinson, Cyneston, Cynes settlement Knowlton, hilltop settlement Lepe, Lapis = stone Littlehampton, Aelles ham tun Lode Hill, Leoud Hill - Traitors Hill London, Lun Dien Longford, long tun ford Lymington, marshy river tun Lyndhurst, Wooded hill with lime trees Mercia, Hwicce Morgans Vale, Morganwe Valley Odstock, Stockade of Od Pepper Box, pepp = path box = tree Redbridge, Reed Bridge Redlynch, red soil - iron, terrace Ringwood, Regni Wood, Kings wood Rockbourne, Rock stream Romsey, Rumsieg Island in the Marsh Salisbury, Caer Caradoc, Sarum, - Caer Guorthegirn, Sarum Burgh, - Searobyr, Sorbiodunium Shire, Cyr Sixpenny Handley, High wood - clearing of the saxons Snails Creep, Schnell Creep, Fast road Somerset, Summor Saete, Dumnonia Sopley, Soppes clearing Southampton, Ham tun, Clausentum, - Ham wic - special farm Spetisbury, Spet = woodpecker St Catherines Hill, Caelwynns Hill Standlynch, stony terrace Stoney Cross Stuckton, Stucks settlement Sussex, South Saxon Tilshead, Theodwulfs hide of land Totton, Farm of Totta Walton Settlement of the Waels - Waelts welsh, celts Wessex, West Saxon Whaddon, Hwoetdenu, Valley where the wheat is grown Whiteparish,Wigtgars parish Whitsbury, Wigtgars burgh, - Wihtgeraesburgh Wick, Out farm - usually cattle Wilton, Hill on the Wylye Wiltshire Wiltsaete Gewissae Wimborne, Vinburnan - two rivers Winchester, Caer Wen, Venta - Belgarum, Win Ceastre, Ouenta, - Caer Gwinntguic, Gwentchester Witherington, Wita = person of - learning, Ring settlement Wylye, twisty river, gwili Ytene, Jutes, New Forest |
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