jan 1, 1437 - royd

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A dialect spelling of <i>rod</i>, a word for an enclosed clearing or assart, often the work of an individual rather than the community as a whole. It was particularly frequent from <i>c</i>.1150 into the 1300s and gave rise to numerous place-names in parts of west Yorkshire, many in undated early charters: ‘three acres of land within the close of <i>Hetonerodes</i> which is called <i>Walthefrode</i> which acres the same <i>Walthef</i> held’, Kirkheaton (FA361); <i>c.</i>1260 <i>de uno essarto quod vocatur Hervardrode</i>, Calverley (Th6/20). The dialect spelling dates from the early fifteenth century: 1437 ‘4 acres were <i>Roideland</i> lying in an assart called <i>Maymoundroide’</i>, Stanley (WCR17/55).

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