1 gen 1651 anni - laund

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An obsolete word for an open space in a wood, akin to the modern ‘lawn’. It gave rise to by-names: 1301 <i>de Galfrido de la Laund </i>, Ugglebarnby (YRS21/111) and numerous minor place-names: 1384 <i>la Launde </i>, Moor Monkton (YRS50/122); 1636 <i>all that messuage called the greate Lawne </i>, Sutton on the Forest (MD87). It remained an active word in wood leases and the like: <i>c </i>.1450 <i>in reparacione muri circa lawnd iijd </i>, Fountains Abbey (SS130/106); 1570 <i>greate covertes of underwood and tymber and large laundes, </i>Leconfield (YAJ17/143); 1651 <i>all that parcel of pasture ground knowne by the name of the Lawnes </i>, Blansby Park (NRR1/69).

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