Old Hampshire Mapped
Cox's Hampshire
Transcription (4)Chardford
Cerdick
Aurelius
Ambrosius
Natanleod
Nutley
Avon, River
Chardford, or Cerdickford: The Saxon Annals call it Cerdicesford, so called from the valiant Saxon Cerdick, the Founder of the West Saxon Kingdom, who after many Battles with the Britains, under the Command of Aurelius, Ambrosius and Nataleod, which last he overcame at this Place, gained this Country, and settled his Kingdom in it: Some are of Opinion that Natanleod was not the Name of this Prince, but Nata or Natan only, and that leod signifies a traitor Country, and so Cerdick's Victory over Natan leod, signifies his Conquest of Prince Natan's Country, which seems still to be preserved in the Town of Netley or Nutley, about which Town it seems to have been; and this Place perhaps was a principal Town in it. The River Avon, which rises in Wiltshire, and washes this Town at its Entrance into this County, passing towards the Sea, brings us to
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