a roman villa site straddles the present-day wiltshire/hampshire border. the village was mentioned in the "cartularium saxonicum" for the year 880 as "(æt) deone", and may have formed part of the inheritance of aethelweard, youngest son of king alfred. it is mentioned as "duene" in the domesday book of 1086 (one of the 51 holdings of waleran the hunter), as "westdone" in 1265, and as "westdune" in 1270.