1 gen 1642 anni - firth

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An area of woodland preserved for hunting deer, possibly within a Forest. It developed from ‘frith’ by metathesis and seems to be predominantly a west Yorkshire spelling. It was the name of territories in Saddleworth and Sowerby and survives as the suffix in Holmfirth. Early references in the Wakefield court rolls include: 1275 ‘land in <i>le Holnefrith</i>’, Holme (YRS29/109); 1307 ‘John <i>del Rediker</i> for escape of 6 beasts and 5 pigs in <i>le Frith</i>’, Sowerby (YRS36/113); 1315 ‘<i>Hobekyn</i> of <i>Sourby</i> for 1 stirk in the <i>Frith </i>not agisted’ (YRS78/13). The surname established itself in this early period, probably derived from Sowerby Frith: 1285 ‘Alexander <i>del Fryth’</i>, Sowerby (YRS29/194). The term was used in other parts of Yorkshire well into the seventeenth century: 1629 <i>one close or parcell of grownde called the firth … containing Forty Acres … parcell of the sayd Forest of Longstrothdale … to be a fyrth and solely kepte for the breedinge … of the game or deere</i>, Buckden (GRD). In the North Riding the early spelling was retained: 1642 ‘the highway leading from Stitnam to <i>Le Frith</i>’, Malton (NRQS4/216).

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