1 gen 1687 anni - bridle-sty

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This was the usual word in Yorkshire for a bridle-path. 1515 ‘between <i>petesole</i> on the south and <i>un bridilsty</i> on the north’, Holmfirth (MD225); 1573 ‘a <i>bridle stye</i> on the north’, Ecclesall (TWH14/45). In 1687 <i>bridle stieths</i> was a regional spelling in Holme (WCR13/120). The status of such rights of way was discussed at the Quarter Sessions: 1676 ‘touching a way ... leading to New Malton, whether the same were a <i>bridle-sty</i> or a common highway for cart and carriage’ (NRQS6/254). The form which we now use, that is ‘bridle-way’, was rare but it occurred as <i>bridilway</i> in Quarmby in 1439 (MD225) and similar examples are on record from the seventeenth century: 1675<i> a bridle sty highway between Wetherby and Bickerton</i> (QS1/15); 1705 <i>a bridlesty way,</i> Snydall (QS1/44/6).

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