jan 1, 1684 - hull

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Traditionally a small pen or hut in which animals and geese were kept. 1637 <i>Thomas Hartley for a swine hull</i>, Sheffield (HSMS18); 1665 <i>came into his fould and did take ... one goose there being in a hull, Doncaster </i>(QS1); 1684 <i>These Outhouses on the north side of the said Mansion ... viz a henhouse, a swinehull, 2 geesehulls</i>, Kirkburton (PR2/1). In the cutlers’ trade the shared workshops of the grinders were called hulls and the grinders’ hull at Abbeydale was built in 1817.

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