jan 1, 1547 - tree-bridge

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. In some cases no doubt a wooden bridge, but it could also be a bridge over a narrow stream made of a single tree trunk. The OED has an example from 1506, entered under foot-bridge. At Ayton in the North Riding the inhabitants were presented <i>for not repairing their bridge called le Tree-bridge lying between … Ormsby and the market-town of Stokesley</i> (NRQS4/224) and in the will of Jeoffrey Charder of Reeth, in 1547, the executors were asked to <i>bye one tree of one foot brode and laye yt over Waveland becke</i> (YRS152/32). The ‘lost’ West Riding place-name <i>Trowebrigge</i> occurred in a Castleford charter in <i>c</i>.1235 (YRS30/670).

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