NB I am rearranging the text and footnotes slightly so that the entire text of one section (e.g. THE LANDMARKS AT BADRICES EGE AND WENDLESWURTHE, 693) is kept together, and then followed by the related notes. Taylor had to paginate differently.
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APPENDIX A.-TOPOGRAPHY.
I. THE LANDMARKS AT BADRICES EGE AND WENDLESWURTHE, 693.
Hec sunt termina hui telluris. This syndon tha landgemaera to badrices ege and to wendleswurthe. [n.1] Thaet is aerest heah yfre [n.2] . of heah yfre into ceokan ege . of ceockan ege into gryddeles elreneb . of gryddeles elreneb. into thara smalan ac. Of thara smalan ac. into rysmere [n.4]. Of rysmere . into leoddebeorge. Of leoddebyrge . into uckebyrge Of uccebyrge into bernneardes byriels. [n.5] Of byrnaerdes byrielse inne thane blacan mor. Of than blacanmore. oth middan hlida burnan. [n.6] Of lida burnan, in gibbe felde. Of gibbe felde [n.7] . intha blaca dic. Andlang blaca dic . into beferithi. [n.8] Of beferithe . andlang straete into fugel rithie [n.9]. Andlang fugel rithie into thaere taemese [n.10] oth midne stream. Andlang streames eft into heah efre.
[PB: Hec sunt termina hui telluris = These are the limits of this earth. [Lovely phrase!]]
n.1 It is interesting to note that the extreme limit is not given as being at Putney, as in the third account of the "Bowndes" in Stuart times.
The original grant, as in the case of the Westminster Manor, does not appear to have included the districts known later as Dunsford and Downe and was probably broadly bounded on the west by the Wandle and its back-waters.
n.2 Obviously the river Effra of later days, now covered in - the eastern limit of the territory.
Comparison shows that the boundaries of 693 and 957 begin at the same spot; proceed in the same direction, passing certain common land-marks - i.e.
gryddeles elrene or gryndeles syllen,
rystere，
berneardes byriels, the blachemore, beferithi and fugel rithie; and terminate at the same point-the confiuence of "tamese" with "fugel rithie" which enters it in a northerly direction. Similarly, although the "Bowndes" of 1604 begin at Putney and pass down the Thames to their eastward limit, they then run from the "Comon sewer" (i.e. the Éffra), by what is obviously much the same route as that described in the earlier "landmarks," until they arrive at the Dunsford boundary on the River (i.e. the Wandle), whence they follow an extended course in order to include the territory of Dunsford and Downe, which were added to Wandsworth at the Reformation, and finally terminate on the Thames again at the Putney boundary.
n.3 "Grydelles elrene," i.e. Grydelles elder; "elle(t)n, O.E. Elder," according to the English Place Name Society's Chief Elements in English Place Names, Pitt Press, 1924:
"gryndeles sylle" of 957.
The same authority gives "syle, O.E. miry place."
Gryndeles marsh may possibly be the "litle Houlburne Close" of the later list, at the point where the boundary bends at right angles, shown, with Halborne Gate, on the Map.
n.4 "Rysmere," ie. Rush mere - the rushy pool; "Ryse, O.E. rush," E.P.N.S., Gbief Elements in English Place Names, 1924; possibly a pool on Clapham Common.
n.5 "Bernneardes byriels," i.e. Bernard's cemetery or Bernard's barrow - also mentioned in both sts, Mr. Walter Johnson in Neolithic Man in N.E. Surrey, 1903, states that a few years ago a supposed barrow was levelled in Bedford Park, Bedford Hill, Tooting.
The mound, which was 100 feet long and 20 ft. wide and surrounded by a trench, was enclosed in the Park for several centuries but when the ground was laid out for building purposes, ten or a dozen years since, it suffered rough usage and was finally destroyed. The site of this artificial mound was one of the highest points in the district, between the upper ends of the modern Huron and Manville Roads; and, although now come half-a-mile beyond the present boundary, there have probably been readjustments in this district (vide Chapter I, footnote 46) and the mound may not impossibly have been the Bernard's barrow of the Saxon land-marks.
n.6 "Hlida burnan." The fact that there are references in the W.A.M. of the 13th century to Lerant of "five acres in Souther feld in the vill of Wandsworth stretching to the water called Lechore near the crot in Southcroft field inteill on" and to 'a messuage in the vill of Wands-worth against the King's highway and stretching along the water called Lodeburne" (W.A.M.,
• Chart. f. 581 and 464b. inclines the writer to identify Hidburn, Ledeborne and Lode-burne with the Wandle ot later days and to thest that this point is where the modern boundary rst meets that river near the Drunhen Bridge of 1604, vide Map.
7 "Gibbe felde "—a " Giufeld " is also mentioned as an "appanage of Battriceseye " in W.A.M.
Domes. Chart., f. 46b.
8 9 10 " Beferithi, fugel rithie and tamese." The same streams occur in the 957 list and suggest the various branches and meanderings of the lower Wandle.
Beaver streams were were not uncommon in early days and there is thus no reason to suppose that this particular Beferithi was the comparatively distant Beverley Brook of modern times.
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2. THE LANDMARKS AT BATRICESEIE, 957.
This synd tha landgemaere to Batriceseie. A'rst aet hegefre [n.11], fram hegefre to gæt-enseheale. fram gateneshale to gryndeles syllen!?, fram gryndeles sylle. to russemere, 18 fram ryssemere to balgenham,14 fram balgenham to bernardes byrieles!, and swa thonon to tham blachemore ;16 fram blachemore to tham coppedethorne; fram tham coppede-thorne to bances byril?. swa thonon to bauerithe. [n.18] Ealswa feor swa an man mai mid anen bille ge wurpen. and an friman mid fif bere cornen swa eft ongen. to fugelerithel? thanon nord20, into tamese bemiddan strame. be healfen strame . est into hegefre. ge byreth se wude the hatte pangell, seofen milen and seofen furlang and seofen fet embeganges.
n11 "Hwegefre," obviously the "heah yfre" of the earlier list.
n12 "Gryndeles syllen," vide note 3.
13 Russemere,
vide note 4.
14 "Balgenham" - later Belgeham, Balam, Baleham, Ballam, mod. Balham.
p. 408. The "bowndes" of 1604 and the modern boundary line both run along Balham or Nightingale Lane, a fact which suggests identity of the earliest and the later boundaries in this section.
vide note 5.
another common point in the two lists - possibly the edge of Tooting Common.
17 "Bances byri"-probably the same point as is indicated by "hlidburn" in the earlier list and where the Wimbledon and Wandsworth boundary now first approaches the Wandle. According to Camden, there was a Bensbury at Wimbledon in his time (S.A.S. Coll., Vol. X, p. 275) ; and Birch quotes a Charter of Edgar, 967, in which Wimbedonnyngemerke is coupled with Benanberwe.
18 19 "Bauerithe" and " Fugelrithe," cf. notes 8 and 9
20 Cf. the 693 list.
The sense is " thence north along Fugelerithe," i.e. Fugelerithe runs north into the Thames, as does Wandle to-day.
21 "Pange."
Vide Chapter I, p. 5.
22 This is the Marsh Wall End between what is now Wandsworth Road and Nine Elms Lane and the River. In a copy of the Survey at the Public Library, it is wrongly given as " Wandle ende."
23 "The Comon Sewer," i.e. the Effra.
24 " The Ladye Acre," vide Map; also S. and K.S.C. Mins. and Batten's Clapham. The site of the field is indicated in an old map in the possession of the Right Hon. John Burns; and also in the Map of these Bounds as perambulated by the Parishioners in 1800, at the Lilrary.
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3. P.R.O. LAND REVENUE MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, No. 197,
f. 17, t. 2 James I, i.e. A.D. 1604.
"The Bowndes of the mannor of Battersey & Wansworthe.
Imprimis at a Dungewharffe called Coptehale in the parrishe of Puttney on the west, the Thames on the northe . from the Thames leadinge to a stile at the waule ende" from that stile downe by a Ditche to the Comon sewer23 unto a parcell of grounde called the Ladye Acre, 24 the parrishe of Lambeth on the East. Then from the Ladye Acre leadinge
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alonge by the Comon Shewer to a Close called litle Houlburne,25 the Parishe of Clapham
Then from the Comon Shewer leadinge up to a ditche ende at Brow-
[The "Comon Shewer" is the Falcon Brook. George Hyde Wollaston also mentions it (1820s).]
mells Corner?& in the heath called the east heath.?? The parishe of Clappam on the North East, And from Browmells corner leadinge Alonge by a bounded ditche?8 made by the Inhabitants of Battersey, to a close in the parrishe of Streatham,2 Clappam heathe lyinge on the North East.
bi streNan, last, c an tro hat in ho ding upon the thie paise in oh appene
on the Southeast downe ballam lanes to the Comon Shewer.31 Then from the Comon Shewer up Ballam Lane into the west heath? And leading alonge the said west heathe by certaine growndes called by the name of Carnald Leases lyinge on the Easte in the parrish of Streatham, from thence to an Oakes at Tooting lane and, beinge a bownded oke standing on the Sowth, from that Oke headinge alonge to a bridge called Drunken bridge the Landes of Robert Brooke gent in the parrish of Streatham & lying upon the sowth, then from the said Bridge leadinge along to a meade called Neate meade in the
on the Sowthe.
Then leadinge along by the said Ryver to a meade called
Nort meade in the parrish of Wimbleton And lying on the west. And from thence to a gate called Dunsford Stocks And from the said gate leadinge along to a bownded corner called Bigden,37 the landes of the Lord Burghley in the parrish of Wimbleton lying on the South. Then from Bigden corner leadinge alonge crosst the heath' to the King's Matie's high waye that leadeth to Kingston & to a way that cometh from Hampton,® the parish of Putney on the South west.
Then from that wave that cometh from Hamton
leadinge alonge the Kinges high waye to a place called Bibhearon, from Bibhearon leadinge
35 "Litle Houlburne Close," ibid. Vide also Map. Halborne Gate, W.A.M., Register Book 1,
f. 135 and S. and K.S.C. Mins., 1573.
26 " Browmells Corner".
-where Wix's Lane meets Clapham Common. Vide Map and cf.
Batten's Clapham, 1827:
27 "East Heath," the Battersea or hither end of Clapham Common formerly called "Wassing-ham Common."
Vide Gase of Atkins v. St. John, 1718.
28 Vide also P.R.O., Glose Rolls, 18 Hy. VI. m. 36 dorse, " Fossam vocat. Batirseisdich." The
"ditche" ran across the Common to " Balam" or Nightingale Lane, vide Map of the Boundaries as perambulated in 1800. In 1716 a new ditch was dug six feet from the site of the old, then becom-
ing filled in, vide Atkins v. St. Job, I718.
29 The Streatham boundary post may still be seen at this point.
30 " Ballam Lane," i.e. Nightingale Lane, vide Map of the Boundaries as perambulated in 1800.
31 "The Comon Shewer,"
i.e. the Falcon Brook and probably the Hidaburna of the first grant.
Vide Chapter I, pp. 14, 15, 16.
32 "West Heath," i.e. Wandsworth Common, vide Case of Atkins v. St. John, 1718.
38 A hollow tree-trunk still marks the Battersea and Wandsworth boundary in Beechcroft Road. 31 "Drunken Bridge" or Drunhen Bridge, formerly a well-known point in Garrett Lane, vide
35 " the River,"
i.e. the Wandle, probably the " hlidburn" of the 693 list; cf. note 6, supra. possibly to be identified with the " Bances byri" of 957.
From this
pot, the " bownds" of 1604 difler from the landmarks of Saxon times, as they included the Manor of Dunsford, which was not added to the Manor of Battersea-and-Wandsworth until the Dis-rie " Bigden Corner," later Bigden or Bignal Bridge (vide Cecil Davis, Wandsworth Notes and Suerie), on the edge of Wimbledon Corner, where the boundary stone will still be found.
38 "The heath," ie. Wimbledon Common.
39 "Hampton," i.e. Roehampton.
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alonge by a Shewer to the forsaid Dunge wharffe called Coppt Halle the parrish of Puttney lyinge on the West and where the said bownde of the mannor of Battersey & Wansworthe endeth.”
The Surveyors were Sir Edmond Bowyer, Kt. and Michael Haydon, Esq. The Jurors were John Powell, Robert Royden, Thomas Hamond, Thomas Hunt, Owen Riddly, Wm. Wood, John Tyne, Henry Cowper, John Shermandyne, Thos. Driver, Wm. Hamond, Wm. Holden, Nicholas Sherwin, John Dynes, Wm. Strangeways, Robert Hamond, Robert Bentley, John Sayer, Robert Johnes and John Spencer.
There is, in the Central Public Library, a Map of the Boundaries between the Manors of Battersea and Clapham as described in the above survey and as perambulated by a Committee of the Parishioners of Battersea in 1800. It shows the Lady Acre, Little Holburne, Bromwells (sic) Corner, the bownded ditch, East Heath, Balam Lane and the Common Sewers, i.e. the Falcon and the Ditch of Bradmede.
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