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Odstock is a village and civil parish about south of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the village of Nunton with its nearby hamlet of Bodenham. The parish is in the valley of the River Ebble, which joins the Hampshire Avon near Bodenham. In the woods about Odstock are earthworks. The meaning of the name is probably "Odo's stockade". Odstock Down is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. ==History== Fragmentary records from Saxon times indicate that the Ebble valley was a thriving area, the River Ebble also being known as the River Chalke. The Domesday Book in 1086 divided the Chalke Valley into eight manors, ''Chelke'' (Chalke), ''Eblesborne'' (Ebbesbourne Wake), ''Fifehide'' (Fifield Bavant), ''Cumbe'' (Coombe Bissett), ''Humitone'' (Homington), ''Odestoche'' (Odstock), ''Stradford'' (Stratford Tony) and ''Trow'' (circa Alvediston and Tollard Royal).〔(Ebbesbourne Wake through the Ages by Peter Meers )〕 Oliver Cromwell is said to have stayed in Odstock in a 17th-century house that was once an inn called the Parsonage. Nunton and Bodenham were transferred from Downton parish to Odstock in 1934. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Odstock」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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