1 gen 1687 anni - shutt

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The word ‘shot’ has numerous meanings and in one definition it is said to be a division of land. ‘Shutt’, which occurs in Yorkshire, is a possible variant and the evidence we have at present suggests that it may have come into use towards the end of the sixteenth century, as a synonym of ‘furlong’: in some cases it identified part of the unenclosed town field: 1601 <i>septem seliones terre arrabilis iacen in le overfield super shuttam sive furlangam voc. le Overshutt</i>, Kirkheaton (WBD/3/77a). In other cases it was an enclosure in what had formerly been a town field: 1604<i> that … Thomas Wood by exchange of lands might take in and inclose one close called the Neither Shuttes</i>, Lepton (WBD4/156); 1687 <i>the footway leading downe their groundes unto the shutt</i>, Northowram (WCR13/110). It remained in use wherever land was not enclosed, and often stabilised as a field name: 1680 <i>two lands more on the same shutt now in a close taken in under Bincliffe House</i>, Brampton (YAJ6/71): in this deed of exchange four divisions in the Cliff Field of Brampton had ‘shutt’ as a place-name element. </br> Lepton field maps of the 1700s show the Nether Shutts as large enclosures to the north of a town field that was still in common ownership: it is clear that this land had been cleared of trees at some early date and brought under the plough as an extension of the older Northfield. Downshutts is a relatively common field name locally and more research may show some comparisons with Nether Shutts. Certain aspects of the history of ‘outshut’, which was similarly an extension, are worth noting.

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