1 Jan 1462 Jahr - falltrough

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Found in early documents in connection with water mills. It is likely to refer to the wooden trough which conveyed water from the dam to the water wheel, deriving power from the ‘fall’. 1349-50 <i>Et tam pro emendacione del Falltrogh simul cum stapulis et bordis</i>, Hartshead (YAJ21/370); 1462-3 <i>2 trees from Rothwell Park for the fulling stock and faltrough </i>(Th57/10). It occurs as <i>Faltrogh</i> in Rothwell in 1292, listed among the minor place-names (PNWR2/148).

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