1 gen 1640 anni - turf-gate

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Access routes to the turf-pits. 1317-8 ‘half an acre on <i>le Turfgates</i>’, Yapham (YRS76/168); 1528 ‘a road (<i>viam</i>) called a <i>Turffegate’</i>, Keighley (YRS63/61); 1570 ‘not keeping the water outside the <i>Turffe gate</i>’, Slaithwaite (DD/R/M); 1640 <i>that euery householder do come or send a suffitient labourer to the mending of the ... turfgates</i>, Holmfirth (WCR1/169). Turfway was a less common word: 1582 <i>a waye commonlie called Gisburne turffe waye</i> (YRS63/45). It gave rise to several minor places, including: 1492 <i>via voc’ Turfewey, </i>Sowerby (PNWR3/155). The modern spelling of this Sowerby name is Turgate Lane.

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