Meonwara
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The Meonwara were one of the tribes of Anglo-Saxon Britain. Their territory was a folkland located in the valley of the River Meon in Hampshire that was subsumed by the Kingdom of Wessex in the late s
The Anglo-Saxon settlements of south east Britain c. 572 AD
Double round barrow on Old Winchester Hill, looking down into the Meon Valley
Bookland (law)
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Bookland was a type of land tenure under Anglo-Saxon law and referred to land that was vested by a charter. Land held without a charter was known as folkland.
Meonwara
…The Meonwara were one of the tribes of Anglo-Saxon Britain. Their territory was a folkland located in the valley of the River Meon in Hampshire that was subsumed by the Kingdom of Wessex in the late seventh century. In the 8th century the…
A charter of Æthelbald of Mercia from 736, establishing bookland