documented from 1250

Saniger

The hamlet the surname came from — on the king's highway from Longbridge by the mid-13th century, «Swonhunger ats Saniger» in Smyth's survey of about 1639, and Saniger Farm when Cooke wrote in 1882. THE POINT IS BERKELEY: the hamlet lies inside that parish and has no coordinate of its own. Wanswell and Hinton, its neighbours, are on the same point and are not shown separately for that reason.

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What happened here

mid 13th cent. The king's highway runs “from LONGEBRUGGE to SWONHUNGER” past a Berkeley messuage granted by Maurice lord of Berkeley · BCM/A/1/12/92
1287 A croft “in the west part of Berkel' towards Swonhungre called ALAGRENE STREET” · BCM/A/1/25/4
1317 Land in Ham “lying near Swonhungre, in the field called STODFOLD”, a third held in dower by Joan Neel · BCM/A/1/30/4
25 April 1322 A lease of one selion “in the field called WESTFELD in the furlong called KYNGAKRE, beside the path from Berkel' to Swonhungre” — and the deed is executed AT SANIGER, witnessed by William de Swonhungre · BCM/A/1/24/261
21 Dec. 1324 Land in Lokedonne “beside the road from Berckel' to Swonhungre called LE MULEWEYE”, the mill way · BCM/A/1/65/12
7 July 1325 A croft “in the field called LE WESTFELD beside the king's highway and the footpath from Berckel' to Swonhungre” · BCM/A/1/24/262
about 1639 Smyth lists the hamlets of Hamfallow: “Wike ats Wikes-elme, Wanefwell, SWONHUNGER ATS SANIGER, Halmer ats Ecton, and Egeton”
2 Nov. 1601 JOHN SANIGER of Berkeley, yeoman, releases 3 acres of arable “in WESTFIELD, SANIGER” — the same field named in 1322 · D2957/41/18
1774 “Saniger Farm… was sold by EDWARD SANIGER to the Earl of Berkeley”, according to J. H. Cooke in 1882. The deed has not been found.