Sherborne's 13th C residents

I am steadily chipping my way through the charters of Winchcombe Abbey, or at least the ones referring to Sherbrone. These ancient latin documents describe the various land exchanges that occurred through the centuries. From it I’m trying to create a glossary of mediaeval Sherborne place names, and then analyse cross-references to associate mediaeval places names with today’s Sherborne. It’s helping me understand the complex nature of village management in the 13th C. (and you thought we had challenges!)

Frankly I have barely started, but some things are becoming clear:

1. The mysterious “Dragons spring” and “Swans Spring” are NORTH of the brook. That narrows things down.
2. There were two huge open spaces, North and South of the village, divided up into tracts of land.
3. There was also a lake in Sherborne called “Caldewelle lake”, (Cold spring lake) in the 1200s.
4. Some field names haven’t changed in eight centuries. There are references to Wadlands hill, Cowham and West Croft which all exist today. Hopefully I’ll be able to make up a map overlaying some of the ancient names on today’s places but it will involve quite a bit of guesswork. I have already got 80 place names identified but not many located.
5. Key people in the 12th C were “Humphrey the Frenchman” and his son and heir John of Sherborne. They were important men. John gave a lot of his land to Winchcombe Abbey for the benefit of his soul, sometimes buying land and immediately gifting it to the Abbey in perpetuity. Other key people include Elias of Foxcote, John atte Vortheye, who lived somewhere near Wadlands Hill, on the East side of the road up to Northfield barn, William de Eiwrthe, John the Reeve and William Coc.
6. Finally, here’s a list of the ordinary folk of Sherborne, who lived “West of the church” in the late 12th or early 13th C. These are our predecessors here in the community of Sherborne. It doesn’t tell us much, just listing names, but I think it helps us realise they were real people living EXACTLY where we do today:Adelgod, Gilbertus, Almer, Galterus Belami, Sebriht, Seuïn, Galterus son of Henrici, Godefridus son of Seuit, Oomot, Galtridus, Serlot, Seulf, Henrious, Turstinus, Willelmus Alewi, Aldeni, Ailwini’s widow, Theudricus, Delewinus, Nicholaus Red, Radulfus of Bladinton, Radulfus the Reeve, Suenio, Stephanus, Galterus Alewi (possibly same as Willelmus Alewi’s family), Baldwinus Pino.

Strange names, some Anglo-Saxon, some with “latinised” names, all real people, whose feet trod the soil of Sherborne 800 years ago. I imagine them like this, below. Do you recognise anyone?