1 gen 1642 anni - mould

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This common place-name element meant ‘earth’, and from the thirteenth century it occurred as a specific in a range of minor place-names. n.d. <i> following Moldecloyh as far as Wetecroftyerd </i>, Hipperholme (YRS83/124); 1317 ‘a curtilage called<i> Moldyerd </i>’, Thornes (YRS78/195). A.H. Smith has ‘molde’ linked with ‘croft, hill, royd and thwayt’ (PNWR7/225) and I have found it with <i> crymbyll </i> in 1528 (C274/1). It has been noted several times with <i> l?ac-t?n </i> (herb-garden) as the generic, e.g. 1308 <i> three acres in moildelaghton </i>, Sowerby (YRS36/177) and this may explain an unusual Almondbury name: 1583 <i> mudlaghtonsteede </i>(DD/R/2/13). In everyday vocabulary it was used in the plural and meant ‘lumps of earth’: 1642 <i> When they are to make a newe barne floore they grave it all over and then rake it ... till the mowles bee indifferent small </i>, Elmswell (DW112).

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