Source: CharterS609

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Description

King Eadwig to Alfred, his optimas; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Didlington in Chalbury and 1 at Uddens in Holt, Dorset.

Charter information
Sawyer 609
Birch 958
Kemble 454
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Wilton
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 956
Scholarly Source Dating 956

Notes

*Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 82; Grundy, Dorset 1934, pp. 112-14, on bounds of Didlington; Grundy, Dorset 1936, pp. 121-3, on bounds of Uddens; Finberg, ECW, no. 599, authentic; Forsberg 1968, pp. 18-19, bounds probably coterminous with parish of Chalbury; Keynes 1980, pp. 54-5, 65, 66 n. 125, p. 67 n. 127, 'Group Two'; PN Dorset, ii. 134-6, 152-3, 158