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Wigmore is a village and civil parish in the northwest part of the county of Herefordshire, England. It is located on the A4110 road, about west of the town of Ludlow, in the Welsh Marches. In earlier times it was also an administrative district called a hundred. ==Name== The placename is attested as ''Wigemore'' (1086), ''Wiggemora'' (1165), from an Old English '' *wicga-mōr'', the element ''wicga'' likely denoting the yielding quality of the moorland, thus "quaking marsh" or similar.〔 "when combined with the second element, it may indicate a specialised term for an unstable marsh in which 'blister' bogs appear and disappear" ''Archaeological Investigation Report Series A1/14/2002'' (); "Wigmore" ''A Dictionary of British Place-Names''. A. D. Mills. Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. () 〕 Wigmore has usually been identified as the ''Wigingamere'' of the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' (s.a. 917, 921) in 19th century scholarship, but Wigingamere is now known to have been in Newport, Essex.〔Haslam, Jeremy. ‘The Anglo-Saxon burh at Wigingamere’, Landscape History 10 (1988), pp. 25-36; Haslam, Jeremy. ‘THe location of the burh at Wigingamere〕 The misidentification goes back to Edward Lye, who recorded a ''Wicinga-mere'' (introducing an association with Vikings) as a ''villa in agro Herefordiensi''.〔''Dictionarium Saxonico- et Gothico-Latinum'' (1772), cited by Joseph Bosworth, ''A dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon language'' (1838). Also compare Thomas Wright, ''The history of Ludlow and its neighbourhood; forming a popular sketch of the history of the Welsh border'' (1852), p. 12: "In 921 king Edward built Wicinga-mere (Wigmore); which was attacked the same year by the Danes, who had again entered the Marches of Wales." 〕 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「Wigmore, Herefordshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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