jan 1, 1535 - grange

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Originally a place where grain was stored, a barn or granary, but in the pre-Dissolution period it was used of the outlying farms or estates held by the great abbeys. 1535 <i>there grange-place of Loftemarres and the halfe parte of Calfcoitt</i>, Rievaulx (SS83/353). It was a significant element therefore in early place-names with examples such as Bentley Grange (Byland Abbey) and Bradley Grange (Fountains Abbey). It became a popular house-name in the nineteenth century, along with grove and lodge. See WYAS791-8.

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