1 gen 1645 anni - hagg

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Of Old Norse origin; a word for a place where trees were felled, a clearing. It acquired different shades of meaning regionally but came to be used in coppice management for a portion of a wood marked out for felling. In a monastic survey of <i>c.</i>1540, High Wood in Hampole near Doncaster had <i>18 coppices called haggs, viz 1 of the age of 18 years another of the age of 17 years and so in succession from year to year</i>: the wood contained 120 acres and an eighteen-year coppice cycle was operated (YRS80/122). There was an overlap in meaning with ‘fall’, ‘spring’ and ‘copy’: in 1524, for example, woodland in Thorpe Underwood was leased to Francis Man, who had the right to make an annual <i>copye ande hagge of the said woodes and spryngies in fagottes</i> (YRS140/109). In 1534 Henry Babthorpe bequeathed his lands to his sons who were not to take profit from them nor sell them, but might have <i>suche hagges and falles as have been yearlie accustomed to be felled, kidded and solde </i>(SS106/48): the words faggot and kid had much the same meaning and both could be used for fuel. In 1577-8 the names <i>of the Fawles & Hagges</i> in Settrington included <i>one springe</i> called <i>the Bushell Hagge </i>(YRS126/101). In the earliest references the precise meaning is usually in doubt: 1237 <i>in foviam essarti quod fuit Johannis de Wodehag</i>, Flaxley (YRS10/271); 1315 ‘for escapes in the <i>Hagge</i> he is amerced 8d’, Rastrick (YRS78/83); 1488 <i>I wylle that my sone Robert have resnabylle ways when he wylle sell ony hages at Ernclyfe</i>, Ingleby Arncliffe (YAJ16/223). From the late Middle Ages it was a common element in minor place-names: 1645 <i>with</i> <i>the herbage of twoe springe woodes thereunto adjoining upon the south and west sides of one wood called the Hagge</i>, Honley (G-A).

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