The Roman Map of Britain Verteris Hanbury, Worcestershire

Vertis (R&C 64) next

Ekwall ERN xxxvi suggested Berte 1299, now Wards Farm (so9660), as the old name of Dean Brook. He conjectured the name to go back to OE beorhte 'the bright one'. On modern maps Ward's Farm is at the juncture of  Seeley Brook and Bow Brook a.k.a. Shell Brook above Himbleton. The name Dean Brook must  have applied to more than the western branch of Shell Brook in Ekwall's time.  Hanbury Roman settlement lies near the junction of Margary 56b (eatington-straford upon avon-droitwich) and Margary 569 (hanbury-stoke heath).

Britannia xiii (1982) 360 (excerpt)
Hanbury (SO 9664)  [Worcestershire]:  fieldwork has shown that a large Roman settlement lay at the junction of the Droitwich to Alcester (Margary 56b) and Bromsgrove to Cirencester (sic*) (Margary 569) Roman roads, represented by finds of Roman pottery extending more than 1 km along the east-west road; there may have been more than one settlement.

The possibility remains that Vertis is an error for Vert'is = Verteris, see same.

*Margary calls this road Hanbury-Stoke Heath, but were it to continue southwards a connection with Margary 55 White Way and Salt Way. Cirencester-Hailes is plausible.

NTSMR-NA4357. Hanbury Hall; Hanbury; Wychavon; Hereford & Worcester Prehistoric, Roman Lynchet SO 9524 6429
Monograph: Hanbury: Settlement and Society in a Woodland Landscape, C Dyer, 1991, National Trust Report: Monitoring surveillance report, Caroline Thackray, 1993

    Though unexplained, 'another Verteris' was dismissed as unlikely by Rivet & Smith p 496. It seems quite the answer here. Verteris is based on *uertero- 'upper part, summit', W. gwarther 'summit', Skt vartra 'dyke', G. Werder 'embankment'. [Pokorny uer-5 also has W. gwerthyr 'Festung' (fortress)(*uertro-).]
    The settlement at Hanbury's most prominent feature is the quickly rising ground on which sits St Marys Church. On the western slope is the lynchet system. Also at Rankov's original coordinates is The Mount and just south is Bartlands (?).

Please read the PNRB's Note on attempts to connect Vertis and Worcester. "...Vertis can have nothing to do with the name Worcester...".