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130-year antedating of shire-house ‘county hall, building where county assizes are held’ (in #OED from 1759)

One parcell of Woodland adjoyninge unto Pickenden Hoath neare the Shire house containing 2 acres three roods 2 daie work and 3 perches ...

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A black-and-white postcard of the frontage of County Hall at Maidstone, looking remarkably clean and smart, as do the street and pavements and occasional shrubs in front of it. If I knew more about cars I might be able to date the photo to, say, the 1950s, based on the visible back half of a vehicle parked in the foreground.
January 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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196-year antedating of conifer (in #OED from 1851)

Coniferslad (1655), Conifer Sladd (1728) [in Little Barningham]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 58
Photo of a conifer plantation in a shallow valley.
April 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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124-year antedating of watermill (in #OED from 1371)

le Watermulne (1247)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Warwickshire, p. 331
Oil painting by Jacob van Ruisdael - "Landscape with a watermill and men cutting reed" alias "Watermill near a farm" alias "A thatch-roofed house with a water mill" (c. 1653).
April 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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76-year antedating of culver-house ‘dove-cote’ (in #OED from 1340)

le Culverhouse (1264)
Colverhouscroft (1270)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Wiltshire, pp. 428, 437
Photograph of an intact medieval dovecote sitting amongst the fields and hedges of Sibthorpe in Nottinghamshire. It is a stone-built circular tower, tapering as it rises in two stages, with a conical tiled roof. A doorway is visible at ground level.
June 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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290-year antedating of saltweller 'one who boils water to extract salt' (in #OED from 1624)

Simon Saltwellare (1334)

Hanley & Chalkin, 'The #Kent Lay Subsidy Roll of 1334/5', in Du Boulay (ed.), 'Documents Illustrative of Medieval Kentish Society' (KAS, 1964), pp. 58–172, at p. 83
A saltweller stokes the wood-fuelled fire beneath a large open pan of boiling brine.
March 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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100-year antedating of cherry-tree (in #OED from c.1400)

Chirretreaker (c.1300) [in Calthorpe]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 70
Photo of an avenue of cherry-trees in blossom, in a park, on a sunny day. Pink fluffy blossom on the branches and on the ground.
April 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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3-year antedating of gallow(s)-tree (sense 2) ‘iron support for a pot over a fire’ (in #OED from 1590)

Item one gallowtrye one pare of howkes & one landyron – 20d. (1587)

Old Place, New Perspectives: a History of the Manor House of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire (2020), p. 102

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Photo of a large old red-brick fireplace containing a gallows-like framework from which to hang a cooking pot. Nothing's cooking at the moment.
July 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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29-year antedating of fold-course 'right of foldage, sheepwalk' (in #OED from 1538)

ffoldecourseland (1509) [in Marsham]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 95
Painting of a flock of sheep being put into a fold for the night by a lone shepherd and his dog. The moon hangs low in the dimming sky. A small lookers-hut sits beyond the fold. Nobody looks like they're in much of a hurry.
March 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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21-year antedating of bound-stone (in #OED from 1602)

lapid’ voc’ the Bonde stones apud Cokes (1581) [in Winterborne Came]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Dorset 1, p. 264
Black and white photo showing a boundary stone standing next to a sign-post at the junction of two rural lanes.
April 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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143-year antedating of cheese-chamber 'room in which cheese is dried or stored' (in #OED from c.1632)

j narke standyng in the chese chamber and oon of the newe small cheyers (1489)

Will of Isbell Geffron, Early #Northampton Wills, p. 152
Eight large round white cheeses sit on two wooden shelves. We catch a tiny glimpse of more cheeses on a shelf above. It all smells lovely, I'm sure.
May 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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63-year antedating of ewe-lease 'pasture for ewes' (in #OED from 1874)

Wolverton Ewe-lees (1811) [in Charminster]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Dorset 1, p. 342
Photo of about twenty ewes grazing in a large lush green field, with rolling wooded countryside in the distance. There is, of course, one black sheep among the otherwise white flock.
June 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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145-year antedating of chalk-land (in #OED from 1941)

Sainfoin. This is the most valuable of all the grasses cultivated in this county: and is much grown on the chalk-land of the eastern part (1796)

John Boys, A General View of the Agriculture of the County of #Kent, p. 96
Black and white photo of the prominent chalk cross which was cut into a hillside at Lenham in 1922 as a war memorial. A tractor is at work in a field in the foreground, and neat rows of haycocks are visible.
June 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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46-year antedating of corn-stubble (in #OED from 1842)

A great number of #pigs are reared in this district, and fed on the corn-stubbles for the butchers (1796)

John Boys, A General View of the Agriculture of the County of #Kent, p. 159
Photo of three black pigs feeding in a field of corn-stubble.
March 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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165-year antedating of horse-monger ‘dealer in horses’ (in #OED from a.1400)

Horsmongeres-streta (c.1235) [in Oxford]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Oxfordshire, p. 38
Oil painting by Alfred James Munnings - "The Horse Fair (A Suffolk Fair)" (1904). Half a dozen men, two smoking pipes and all but one wearing hats, evaluate a fine looking horse on a grassy spot beside the tents and stalls of a busy outdoor market. One chap seems to be trying to check the horse's teeth. The white-suited horse trader looks rather unimpressed by whatever his potential customers are mumbling. There are no women to be seen. Another horse looks on dolefully.
May 1, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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307-year antedating of sweeting-tree 'tree bearing small, sweet, early apples' (in #OED from 1908)

the Sweetinge tree (1601) [in Knipton]
#EPNS Place-Names of #Leicestershire Part 2, p. 19

Sweetingtree Close (1629) [in Itteringham]
EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p. 91

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Photo of several small, early apples growing on a tree. No idea whether they're sweet or not!
March 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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449-year antedating of lingy (adj.1) 'covered with heather' (in #OED from 1649)

Lingihou (c.1200), le Lingihoc (1317)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Nottinghamshire, p. 284
Purple heather in bloom dominates a long-shadowed landscape of rocks and grass. A low line of fluffy cloud appears to rest upon a flat-topped hill in an otherwise clear blue sky. I'd guess it's somewhere in the Peak District, it's got an "edgy" Derbyshire feel.
February 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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6-year antedating of keeper (n. sense 6a) ‘clasp, catch’ (in #OED from 1578)

Item paid for nayles for churche gate latches and kepers – vid. (1572) [Ashwell]

A. Palmer, Tudor Churchwardens’ Accounts, #Hertfordshire Record Publications vol. 1 (Herts Record Society, 1985), p. 14
A photo of the 15th-century lychgate at St Mary's church in Ashwell, Hertfordshire. It has a tiled roof and two bays, that on the left with timber bars being (I assume) where a bier would be rested prior to a burial service, and that on the right containing a wooden gate.
January 31, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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79-year antedating of pinnocky ‘consisting of sticky red clay mixed with small stones’ (in #OED from 1875)

Coomby and pinnacky soils are nearly under the same system [of crop-rotation] as the clay already described (1796)

John Boys, A General View of the Agriculture of #Kent p. 73
Photo of crop cultivation on red clayey soil. Two rows of shoots and green leaves are beginning to appear, next to a number of apparently empty furrows.
May 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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201-year antedating of watering-stone 'stone water-trough' (in #OED from 1788)

Item one watring stonne one bucket a horse hocke & an old plowe – 2s. (1587)

Inventory of Agnes Steele, in Old Place, New Perspectives: a History of the Manor House of Old Sleaford, Lincolnshire, p. 102
Photo of an old grey stone water-trough, standing on an area of grass. It is empty and weather-worn, with patches of yellow and reddish lichen.
April 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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129-year antedating of tucking-mill ‘fulling-mill’ (in #OED from 1467–8)

la Toukyngmulle (1338) [in Horningsham]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Wiltshire, p. 442

curs’ aque apud la Toukyng Mull (1428) [in Turners Puddle]

Place-Names of #Dorset 1, p. 297

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June 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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252-year antedating of stack-yard 'rick-yard' (in #OED from 1569)

Stakkeyarde (1317)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Nottinghamshire, p. 283
A dog supervises as three humans unload hay from a horse-drawn cart and place it upon an impressively large rick. Good work, that dog!
May 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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422-year antedating of strawless (in #OED from 1691)

Stratton Streles (1269)
Stratton Streules (1347)

#EPNS Place-Names of #Norfolk Part 3, p.103
Ordnance Survey map showing the location of Stratton Strawless near Hevingham and Buxton, about ten miles north of Norwich.
March 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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130-year antedating of shire-house ‘county hall, building where county assizes are held’ (in #OED from 1759)

One parcell of Woodland adjoyninge unto Pickenden Hoath neare the Shire house containing 2 acres three roods 2 daie work and 3 perches ...

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A black-and-white postcard of the frontage of County Hall at Maidstone, looking remarkably clean and smart, as do the street and pavements and occasional shrubs in front of it. If I knew more about cars I might be able to date the photo to, say, the 1950s, based on the visible back half of a vehicle parked in the foreground.
January 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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78-year antedating of toll-hall ‘hall where tolls are collected, town-hall’ (in #OED from 1395)

La Tolhalle (1317) [in Bridport]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Dorset 4, p. 360
Oil painting by Bernard Finnigan Gribble - "The Old Custom House at Poole, Dorset" (1937). A grand three-storied Georgian brick building, with twin stairways to a first-floor entrance, stands at a road junction by the quayside. A handful of people are walking along or interacting in the streets, and steam rises from the funnels of ships in the harbour.
April 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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187-year antedating of hay-barn (in #OED from 1577)

Hayberne (1390) [Haybarn Farm in Aston]

#EPNS Place-Names of #Warwickshire, p. 34
A shaft of sunlight penetrates the interior of a hay-barn, partly illuminating stacks of hay-bales and a pair of resting geese.
February 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM