jan 1, 1572 - outwood

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The ‘out wood’ was a wood situated away from the village nucleus. The place-name occurs frequently in Yorkshire. References not noted in PNWR include: 1543 <i>there is within the saide Lordshipp of Hamelton, Woode called the Owt Woode …</i> (YRS13/362); 1572 <i>a great wast ground … called the Owt woodes … in the nature of a chace,</i> Spofforth (YAJ17/142). Wakefield’s ‘outwood’ is well documented and it has been shown that it lay in the township of Stanley and part of Alverthorpe, rather than in Wakefield itself: it was distinct from the common wood (WYAS690-2). James said the name was sometimes used for a wood ‘within the forest purlieu’; that is land which had been disafforested (FWT119).

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