A |
| Allotment |
Land taken from waste in
C18 & C19 |
| Assart
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Make
arable by clearing trees, etc. |
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B |
| Badger |
Travelling
salesmen |
| Bee
Boles |
Until
the late 1800s bees were kept in straw skeps, mostly on
benches in the open, or on a shelf in an open fronted shelter.
But in wetter and windier parts of Britain, some beekeepers
kept them in bee boles. These are recesses built in a wall
specifically for housing skeps. For more information visit
the following web site Bee
Boles |
| Bent |
Rough Pasture |
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C |
| Calf
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(OE calf)
small |
| Cattlegate |
A
stinted pasture right; the right to graze one cow on the
common grazing. Formulae (which varied from manor to manor)
were applied to convert this measure into rights for other
types of livestock (for example, one cattlegate might
give you the right to graze ten sheep) |
| Close |
A small piece of land,
frequently attached to a house, usually enclosed. (ME
clos(e)) |
| Common |
Common
land (a common), in England and Wales, is a piece of land
over which other people—often neighbouring landowners—could
exercise one of a number of traditional rights, such as
allowing their cattle to graze upon it. The older texts
use the word "common" to denote any such right,
but more modern usage is to refer to particular rights
of common, and to reserve the word "common"
for the land over which the rights are exercised. |
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D |
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F |
| Feast
of the Finding of the Holy Cross |
3rd
May |
| Firded |
To clear
stock from the stinted pasture to allow the grass to grow |
| Firthed |
To clear
stock from the stinted pasture to allow the grass to grow |
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G |
| Garth |
An enclosure (OE
?) |
| Grange |
A Monastic
grange is a manor house at the centre of a farming estate
belonging to a monastery. |
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H |
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I |
| Ing |
Meadow,
pasture (ON eng) |
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J |
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M |
| Martinmas |
11th November |
| Michelmas |
29th September |
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N |
| New
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Suggests
that the land was newly created for example New Close, a
small piece of land next to a house newly enclosed |
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O |
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P |
| Park |
Enclosure for animals (ME
park) |
| Parrock |
Indicates
pasture land or small field (OE pearroc) |
| Pasture |
Ground reserved for cattle
or sheep to graze |
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Q |
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R |
| The
Manor of Ramsgill |
Stonebeck
Up and Stonebeck Down. |
| Rigalds |
Undersexed
male sheep |
| Riggots |
Undersexed
male sheep |
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S |
| Stint |
A numerical
limit placed on the size of a pasture right. Often expressed
in terms of a 'beastgate' or 'cattlegate', the right to
graze one horned beast. Formulae were used to convert beastgates
into rights for other categories of livestock (10 sheep
to one beastgate, for example). |
| Stonebeck |
From the Old Norse (ON
steinn) stone, Beck (ON bekkr)
a stony stream. |
| Stirks |
Cattle
one to two years old. |
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T |
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U |
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W |
| Waste |
A place
that has been laid waste or destroyed, perhaps by Scottish
invaders.
A large tract of uncultivated land. |
| Watershed |
A drainage
water divide, especially in Britain and other Commonwealth
countries, meaning the ridge of land that separates two
adjacent drainage basins. |
| Wood
Pasture |
Wood pasture
and parkland are historic habitat systems where livestock
graze beneath trees grown for timber. |
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