jan 1, 1627 - cail

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Northern spellings of ‘cole’, applied to various types of <i>brassica, </i>not just cabbage. 1612 <i>for an assault with a cayle knife</i>, Thornton le Beans (NRQS1/263); 1614 <i>a kele pott</i>, South Cave (Kaner255). It is not uncommon as an element in minor place-names, e.g. 1580 <i>Caleyate</i> (YRS39/45); 1627 <i>Calebanke</i> (PNWR6/79). These refer to Kail Hill near Appletreewick which might be interpreted as cabbage-shaped hill. The earliest reference to this name is in an undated thirteenth-century charter: ‘between the path from <i>Kale</i> and the stream of <i>Dib</i>’, Appletreewick (YRS111/9). See calgarth.

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