Rowbarrow Hundred
Hundred in the County of Dorset
Historical Forms
- Aileveswode hundret c.1086 GeldR
- Hundret Porbiche 1086 DB
- Ruggebergahundredum 1184 P
- Ruggebergh 1244 Ass
- Ruberge(hundredum) 1195,1199 P
- Ruber' 1275 RH
- Rubergh' 1288 Ass 1379 MinAcct
- Ruebergh(e) 1265 Misc 1280 Ass
- Ruburgh 1289 Orig 1290
- Rowgh'borough e15 MiltRoll
- Roughburgh 1461 Pat
- Rughborowe 1509 BrEll
- Rougeberghe 1244 Ass
- Rogborwe 1268 Ass
- Rogeberwe 1280 Ass
- Rou(e)bergh 1288 1307 Ipm 1425 Cl
- Rou(e)b(u)rgh 1346 FA
- Rou(e)berg 1399 Ipm
- Rou(e)bargh 1425 IpmR 1428 FA
- Rou(e)borgh 1431 ib
- Row(e)berge, Row(e)berwe 1278 QW
- Row(e)berue 1280 Ass
- Row(e)bergh(e) 1288 1412 FA
- Row(e)borowe 1492 Pat
- Row(e)barrowge 1546 Ct
- Row(e)burgh 1548 Pat
- Row(e)boroughe 1550 ib
- Rouweberu(w)e 1280 Ass
- Ruweberyce (sic) 1296 Ipm
- Robergh 1346 FA
- Robargh 1428 ib
- Routheber 1280 Ass
- Rouzberwe 1303 FA
- Rousebergh 1316 ib
Etymology
The two 11th-cent. names for this hundred are taken from Ailwood in Corfe C. par. infra and from the Isle of Purbeck supra . Rowbarrow is 'rough hill or barrow', v. rūh (wk. obl. rūgan ), beorg , a name common in the OE charters for Do, e.g. (on ) Ruanberghe 891 (14) Bodl (S 347 (2)), cf. also Rowbarrow in Ch. Knowle par. infra and Roborough hundred D 222. According to Hutch3 1 629 'near Tapers or Talbot's Hill in Woolgarston, and south of it, is a lane called Rowbarrow Lane, and in a ground near it the Hundred Court was formerly held', v. Tabbit's Hill, Woolgarston, and Rowbarrow Lane, all in Corfe C. par. infra . Tabbit's Hill is only just over ½ mile SW of Ailwood, and as Anderson 123 points out, it is therefore probable that the meeting-place of the hundred was not changed, but that the hundred was called Ailwood because its meetings were held at Rowbarrow near the place or in the wood called Ailwood. For the name Estpurbyk , Estpurbik (e ) which must refer to an area coterminous with Rowbarrow hundred, v. Isle of Purbeck supra .