jan 1, 1668 - house-stead

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A piece of land on which a house stands or might be built. The earliest examples noted refer to a property in Rowley, Lepton: 1350 <i>jacet super hustede </i>(MD234/283); 1482 <i>le Hustedelandes</i> (MD335) but the word occurred over a wide area from the sixteenth century: 1558 ‘a parcel of land called <i>Housesteade</i>’, Pudsey (YRS65/116); 1636 ‘one housestead adjoining the far house’, Slaidburn (CS1/39); 1668 <i>to William Anderson the garth, with one howstead and the stone for the building thereof within the said garth or garden</i>, Hanlith (MD217). It was also used as an alternative of ‘house’ in the sense of the main living room: 1668 <i>In the howstead: One great table</i>, etc, Knaresborough (YRS134/132).

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