Loosely for two bovates???

RC

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Subject: Re: [EPNL] What is a wambling?

Keith Briggs wrote:-

>  A twelfth-century description of land in Assington (Sf) has quoddam
> wambling in parco de Asintone quod est terra duorum boum (Kalendar of Abbot Samson, ed. Davis p.68).
> So there's a connection to two cows, but what exactly was it? Keith

"A certain Wambling in Asintone Park which is land of 2 oxen".

Perhaps, the land referred to may have been enough to graze two oxen ("cow" = 'vacca'.), and was known as "The Wambling". Perhaps someone grazed his pair of haulage oxen there.