Berrick Salome

Berrick Salome ( /ˈbɛrɨk ˈsæləm/) is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) north of Wallingford. The parish includes the hamlets of Berrick Prior, Roke and Rokemarsh. Berewic is Old English for "corn farm" and "Salome" is a corruption of a family name. In the 13th century Aymar de Sulham held the manor; Sulham is a parish in Berkshire on the River Thames near Reading. Successive changes have been Berrick Sallome (1571), Berwick Sallome (1737, 1797) and finally, by the time of the 1863 Enclosure Act, Berrick Salome. Berrick Prior means the corn farm belonging to the Prior of Canterbury. The site of Berrick Salome was determined in the earliest times by the accessibility of water. Except for a...