Brige
Hill, Rosalind: 1956: Lost Settlement of Brige, The: ProcHFC: 20: pp3-13
otherwise: Stockbridge; Brage
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Stockbridge, ... It ... was more considerable than it is now, especially if we take it to be the Brige or Brage, which Mr. Camden says, stood hereabouts, because Antoninus places it nine Miles from the old Sorbiodunum, for it lies exactly at that distance.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Thorngate Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Broughton / ol Bridge or Brage
otherwise: Broughton; Brage
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1610s
[the Test] ... seeketh for BRIGE or BRAGE an ancient towne likewise placed by Antonine nine miles from Sorbiodunum: at which distance betweene Salisburie and Winchester he findeth not farre from his banke, Broughton a small countrie towne: which if it were not that BRAGE, I verily beleeve that it was then utterly destroied when William of Normandie laid all even with the ground heere abouts to make that forrest, beforementioned [New Forest]
otherwise: Brawghton
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Thornegate Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
otherwise: Brige
The Antonine Itineraries list:-
BRIGE
Listed in itinerary XV at xi roman miles from Venta, viii to Sorbiodoni ie Old Sarum, or Salisbury (NB you must understand the system of measuring and the size of roman miles); and in itinerary XII as a copyist's error.
The name derives from Celtic 'hill' or perhaps 'hillfort', more ancient than the term dun, cognate with Germanic berg; this is probably the roman settlement south-east of Ashley, SU4092.
