Wætlinga-strǽt
- noun [ feminine ]
- Rochester, London, St. Alban's,
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Ðis sint ða landgemǽra ðara landa tó Baddanbyrig (
Badby) and tó Doddanforda (Dodford) and tó Eferdúne (Everdon) (all three places are in Northamptonshire, a little to the west of Watling Street) . . . Súð on gerihte andlang Wætlinga strǽt on ðone weg tó Weóduninga gemǽre (Weedon ),
- Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 250, 7: iii. 421, 29.
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Ðis sint ða landgemǽro intó Stówe (
Stowe in Bucks
). Ǽrest of ðam hálgan wylles forda súð andlang Wætlinga strǽte,- 443, 4.
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Hii sunt termini hujus terrae [
land at Teobbanwyrðe (Tebworth, Beds )
.] Ðǽr se díc sceót in Wæclinga strǽte ; andlanges Wæxlinga strǽte . . . æfter díce in Wæxlingga stráte, v. 187, 21-31. - Ðis syndon ða landgemǽra tó Hámstede. Of Sandgatan . . . west tó Wætlinga strǽte, vi. 106, 1.
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On Weaclinga strǽt (
the place is the same as in the first passage given
),- 213, 22.
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Ðonne on gerihte tó Bedanforda, ðonne up on Úsan óð Wætlinga strǽt,
- L. A. G. 1; Th. i. 152, 10.
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Hé com ofer Wæclinga strǽte, Chr. 1013; Erl. 148, 6. ^f In one charter the word occurs in boundaries of land 'æt Eástún,' which Kemble places in Hampshire, the gift of the land being made at Glastonbury. If this identification is correct the word seems to have been used of more than one road :-- Of ðære strǽte in Ebban mór.
. . in ðone díc on Uppinghǽma gemǽra (Upham ? Hants )
; andlang díces on Wætlinga strǽte,- Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 124, 18.
- Chauc. H. of Fame, ii. 431.
- Cath. Angl. 410, and see note.
Bosworth, Joseph. “Wætlinga-strǽt.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/34564.
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