jan 1, 1603 - flood gap
Description:
The EDD has this word in the sense of a fence across a stream, but only in Somerset. In Yorkshire the earliest reference occurs in undated boundary description of the late fifteenth century: <i>so leffe the raw on your leffyd hand to the towyn flodgapp</i>, Bolton by Bowland (YRS56/259); 1603 <i>the flodgapp in the bancke floshe</i>, Airton (DDMa).Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1603
Now
~ 422 years ago