Here I go again...

I keep looking at the flourish on the top of the first "b". Why is it there?
Maybe it's not a "b" after all? Maybe he started to write a "b" and changed it to an "r", giving us "Arb...".
I thought originally that the additional bit above the word was "ad", but I've enlarged it greatly on my screen and it
could be "fld." - what looks like a curve on the top of the (third letter) "b" could actually be the tail of an "f".
That would give us something along the lines of
Arb...fld...I've been googly mapping and there is an
Arborfield which is part of Reading.
I realise that this is all very speculative, but the more I look at it, the more I can see an attempt at
Arborfield...Karen