SPENE, and SPENHAM-LAND, (Berkshire) on the Kennet, 1 m. N.W, of Newbury. The former was the Spinae of the Romans, out of the ruins of which rose the latter, where are 2 or 3 good inns for travellers, in the Bath road from London. This also, which is generally reckoned a part of Newbury, to which it extends, is a place of some antiquity, and was formerly a T. of considerable trade.