1 gen 1607 anni - Crown Flatt

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Smith listed these two West Riding place-names, one in Ossett and the other in Dewsbury, but he offered no explanation of their meaning. He compared the two and was apparently satisfied that ‘Crown’ could be taken at face value. I believe he was wrong and that the first element is more likely to be Old English <i>crumb</i> meaning ‘bent’ or ‘crooked’. Early examples of this element are on record, for example: 1219 <i>Crumelandis</i>, Crofton (PNWR2/114); 1236 <i>Crumbacre</i>, Kirkleatham (YRS62/21,146); 1346 <i>one rood called Croumbeland</i>, Bingley (YRS76/8). Other early references are undated but clearly from the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries: they include: <i>Crumbacre</i>, Barforth (YRS102/12); <i>Crumlandis</i>, Brinsworth (PNWR1/179) and <i>Crumlandes</i>, Ardsley (YRS66/55). Where a sequence of names is available the transition from ‘crumb’ to ‘crown’ is implicit. In Ossett: 1538 <i>a half rood of land lying on Crowmeland butt</i> (WCR9/109); 1584 <i>one selion lies on Crownelandes</i> (WCR4/24). Similarly in Huddersfield: 1549 <i>Cromlaundes</i> (DD/R/dd/1/14); 1607 <i>Crownlands</i> (DD/R/dd/5/16). The context in these cases links the names with the open field, probably referring to ‘shuts’ or groups of strips which either had a pronounced bend or traversed a hummock. In some cases what had been a generic became a distinctive place-name: ‘crum’ was replaced by ‘crown’ when the meaning was no longer transparent.

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