1 Jan 1682 Jahr - bow

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In Yorkshire documents ‘bow’ was the word most commonly used for the vaulted arch of a stone bridge. References date from Elland’s <i>three bowes or arches</i> in 1579 (BAS6/138) and they are frequent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A sudden thaw in York in 1564-5 caused the river Ouse to flood and it destroyed the bridge, overthrowing <i>two bowes … and twelve houses standing upon the same</i> (DHB79). The contract of 1486 for Sheffield’s Lady’s Bridge contains the phrase: <i>whych shall be made v archys embowed</i> (HS1/337). In 1682 there were <i>severall holes worne under the Litle Bowes att the ends</i> of Cottingley Bridge, a reference there to the arched sluices in the causeways (QS1/21/5). The place-name evidence indicates that the term was in use from much earlier.

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