1 janv. 1607 - pole

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A pole set up in marshland or on the moors as a way-marker. 1607 <i>from thence to a certain powle or stowpe set in the moors</i>, Crowle (ERAS13/202). In 1775 the Halifax historian Watson wrote: <i>the Botheroyd ... family ... had a privilege belonging to their lands that they might hawk and hunt between Worset Pole ... and Spend Bridge</i>. This was the pole that gave its name to Pole Moor in Slaithwaite, located at Wortshill.

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