Down to the Thames (O. Eng. “Temese”, Celtic “Tamesis”) from Buckland (“æt Boclande”) Plus Wildlife

These history walk videos are about the English landscape in and around the south west of England (though I make the odd foray into Wales). I often use ancient charters (such as Saxon charters) to give me insight into the way the landscape was viewed in the past.
But it is not the Saxons that interest me the most (though they do) but the prehistoric world and its ancient monuments, trackways and ditches.
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[@adrianvodden8327]

Regarding those 'wasan', we have here in Essex dialect 'wash'. Suggested meaning is 'ford or flooded road'. I lean to 'flooded road' because on maps they are prefixed by a location name. Those roads are flooded because of intermittent run-off at times of heavy rain. The short water course denoted by 'wasan' may at times be dry (cf bourne).

[@AllotmentFox]

That was what I was tentatively suggesting, but there is a problem: the Old English of wash is wasc which is pronounced the same. Wasan is used three times in the local charters but without a hint of an h. ‘Was’ is (as GB Grundy interprets it) ‘Ouse’ as in river Ouse and therefore is Celtic/Brythonic/Welsh for water. The northern Ouse is a grand river with an ancient name (and probably a god) and these two are piddling ditches. It is the piddling ditches thing that was causing me to squirm. Thanks for commenting and watch8ng!