jan 1, 1663 - place

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Included here because it could mean ‘residence’ and was a significant place-name element. 1344 ‘a certain place called <i>le Priour Place de Drax</i>’, Hook (YRS17/41); 1419 ‘Grant ... of two messuages which are called <i>William Symplace and Clerkplase</i>’, Farnley near Otley (YRS111/81); 1486 ‘a messuage called <i>Jenett Swaldale place</i>’, Thornton on the Hill (YRS63/139). It could refer to more than one property: 1410 ‘two messuages and four acres of land and meadow in <i>Melmorby</i> called <i>Rosseplace</i>’ (YRS69/101) and even to a capital messuage: 1448 ‘the <i>Cheyf plase or Hedplase, </i>Gomersal (YRS83/99). It was very important in some parishes, especially in Methley where it featured more than forty times in a list of the manorial greaves for the period 1592-1642. The names there survived the departure of the families after whom they were named: 1594 <i>Tho: Beckellanes ... pro Porter place in Thorpe quondam Richardi Bunnye et Roberti Brigges</i> (Th35/79). Many examples survive and they can be important clues to the antiquity of settlements: 1387 <i>Henry Wade,</i> Cartworth (MD225); 1578 <i>John Crosland de Wadeplace</i>, Cartworth (G-A); 1663 <i>Abraham Kaye of Wardplace</i>, Cartworth (PR).

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