jan 1, 1562 - village

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A rare word in Yorkshire until the early eighteenth century. Originally, even small places were ‘towns’, but in the Tudor period clerks began to treat this as a regionalism: 1562 <i>John Teale ... haith dwellid ... at a litle towne or village callid Small Bankes of the parishe of Addington</i> (YRS114/105). This clerk was clearly unfamiliar with the region: the parish was actually Addingham and Small Banks may have been a single dwelling-house on the moorside.

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