jan 1, 1630 - lidgate

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A swing-gate which was a barrier to animals, formerly set up between land under cultivation and the common or waste, or between two properties. 1297-8 ‘10½ acres in <i>le Roberdriding </i> ... by <i>le Lideyhat </i>’ Stockeld (YRS65/146); 1374 ‘had made <i>2 lideyates </i> at the ends of the lane between <i>Cliffehouses </i> and <i>Horlawegrenehouses </i>, to the hurt of the people’, Scammonden (MD225/1/100); 1397-8 <i>viijd solutis ad reparacionem unius Lidyhate pro ij domibus domini in Snayth </i> (YAJ15/418); 1459 ‘that he cause the common way ... to be repaired by making a <i>Lidyaite </i>’, Methley (Th35/180); 1545 ‘that he shall make a ladder called a <i>steile </i> between the <i>Lidyaite </i> & the wall’, Methley (Th35/209). It became the generic in some minor place-names: 1514 <i>Kirkelidyate, </i> Holme (MD225); 1584 <i>the towne Lidyate on the east, </i> Holme (WCR4/140). References from the seventeenth century suggest that by then the meaning of the place-name was no longer transparent: 1623 <i>that John Wood </i> ... <i>sufficiently make the Lidgyate yate before Maydaye next </i>, Lepton (WBM); 1630 <i>That those persons to whom one yate called Lidgetyate doth belong shall keep the same up and in good repair ... upon paine of 3s 4d </i>, Clayton (HM/E/94). The usual pronunciation approximates to ‘Lidjett’ and an extract from a late fifteenth-century boundary description highlights the problems this can give the modern reader: <i>so foloyn the raw to stawpe loyn lydche and so leffyn the same legchhett on the leffyd hand </i>, Bolton by Bowland (YRS56/259). The by-name occurs regularly from the thirteenth century: 1297 <i>Robertus Attheliddegate </i>, South Elmsall (YRS16/70); 1332 <i>William atte Lyddyate </i>, Holme (WCR3/102).

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