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ON THE ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS
Mapledure;[1] from the Hore Mapledure to the "thrum treowen;"[2] from the thrum treowen along "Depenbrokes"[3] on right to "Wealagate"[4] (or Wealegate); from Wealagate to "Shirenpol;"[5] from Shirenpol to "Fulbrook;"[6] from Fulbrook to the "Blake Wiðig;"[7] and from the Blaken Wiðig on right to "Weales hythe,"[8] and along the Thames on the other side "Mixtenham,"[9] in the stream between "Burghege"[10] and Mixtenham; and along the water to "Neteleyge;"[11] from the eyot
- ↑ The old maple-tree.
- ↑ The three trees, perhaps on Thorpe Green.
- ↑ A watercourse still called Deepenbrook, separating Thorpe from Egham.
- ↑ "Wealh" A.S. a stranger, foreigner; Welsh, Wealh also signifies a slave or servant, and was applied by the Saxons to such of the British inhabitants as remained on the soil. Wealagate may therefore mean the Strangers', or the British, or Welsh road.
- ↑ This cannot be the large piece of water formerly on Woodham Heath, called Shirewater, or Shirepond; for that is too far back upon the boundary-line to the eastward: the name would lead us to suppose it to have been a piece of water on the border of the county, perhaps the original of the lake now called Virginia Water; but that is on the opposite side of Egham parish. Mr. Clark suggests that a hollow basinshaped piece of land near Thorpe Leigh, which has some appearance of having formerly been a pool, and where the water is still very deep in flood-time, may mark the site of the Shirenpol.
- ↑ Mr. Clark says he could not hear of Fulbrook in this quarter, but there is a considerable depth of water here, separating Thorpe and Egham.
- ↑ The black willow-tree.
- ↑ See note 38. Mr. Clark says he cannot find that Wealeshithe, or Wallshithe, is known now by that name. It is evidently on the boundary of Thorpe and Egham, at the Thames, and there is at that spot a sort of haven or hithe, and a little island called "Truss's Island."
- ↑ Maxtenham in the old plan of Chertsey Abbey lands, in Manning and Bray's Surrey, and still called Mixenham or Mixnam.
- ↑ Laleham Burway, of which it would be superfluous to say more than to refer to any published account of Chertsey.
- ↑ Mr. Clark informs me that there is an eyot now called Nettle Eyot, in the Thames.
