1 gen 1629 anni - headland

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In the open-field system this was a strip of uncultivated land at the end of the furrows, where the plough might conveniently turn. 1438 <i>1 longhedland, 2 lands at le ellerhedes</i>, Harrogate (BJHK50); 1465 ‘a selion butting on <i>Rowley broke ... juxta le hedland</i>’, Lepton (YDK52); 1557 <i>was mercyed in Bulmer Courte for plewing of a balk in Hardy Flat lienge at side of a hedland</i> <i>there</i> (YRS114/94); 1629 <i>Benson ... did enclose the flatt from towe laynes whearvnto it laie open, and ... having made a hedge he could not plowghe the landes quite thorowghe as was accustomed ... whearvpon he then made a heade land and ploughed over the endes of his owne landes and the ends of some of Sir Henry Slingesbies landes,</i> Knaresborough (YAJ37/202).

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