April 16, 2012
Pre-enclosure Close Names
The 1738 Manorial Plan and survey includes a list of all the closes and who owned them. Many of the closes have interesting names.
Although the formal enclosure of the commons and open fields did not take place until the early 19th century there were a large number on enclosed fields.
The enclosure plan refers to these as the Ancient Enclosures.
The 1738 manorial plan and survey shows these enclosures. Many of the enclosure outlines still exist in modern field boundaries.
Almost all of the individual enclosures were named in the 1738 survey. The following are some of the names given to the main groups of closes.
Close – An enclosed field.
Carr – marshy woodland or scrubland [from Old Norse]
Croft – A small enclosed field or pasture near a house.
Demesne – land which was for the personal use of the lord of the manor.
Garth – A yard, garden, or paddock. [Middle English, enclosed yard , from Old Norse grader ;]
Inge – meadow(s), especially water meadow near a river
I have summarised the close names below.
| Wood Lane Closes | Shaw Close |
| The upper wood Lane Close | |
| Middle Wood lane Close | |
| Lower Wood Lane Close | |
| The Hopp Garth at Wood Lane End | |
| Tetley Closes | Tetley Close next Town end Green |
| The Great Close on the North West side Tetley House | |
| Tetley Close | |
| Woods Closes | The Town end Green Close |
| Case Wood Close | |
| The wood close adjoining to the Green Drove by Tetley Closes | |
| The Wood Close near Spen Lane | |
| The Great Beggar Tree Close | |
| The Beggar Tree Close | |
| Curley Closes | a Close |
| Bonny Hale Closes | The Close at Bonny Hale nook |
| Home Close | |
| The Bonney Hale Close | |
| Calf Close | |
| Well Close | |
| Bonney Hale Close | |
| North Close | |
| Sikes Close | |
| Style Hill Close | |
| Randalls Croft | |
| The Close called South Row | |
| The plantation at Eland called Cliff Croft | |
| The Close adjoining to Cliff Croft | |
| Low Close | |
| Home Close | |
| Seath Close | |
| Wood Lane Close | |
| Kiln Close | |
| Another Close called Eller Garth | |
| Long Close called Eller Garth | |
| The Close called Broad Close | |
| Broad Close | |
| The Bucar Closes | Broad Close |
| Great Bucar Close | |
| The middle Bucar Close | |
| North Bucar Close | |
| South Bucar Close | |
| The Close called Butter Jack | |
| The Great Eller Croft | |
| The Low Eller Croft | |
| The High Eller Croft | |
| The Townend Green Close | |
| The Closes adjoining to the Town end Green | |
| Town end Close | |
| Vicar mear Close | |
| Cockers Close | |
| Will Close | |
| Old Swallow Hurn Close | |
| Little Swallow Hurn Close | |
| New Swallow Hurn Close | |
| The farther Corn Close | |
| The Sally well Close | |
| The Sewer Close | |
| Thakes Close | |
| The Scuttuck | |
| Notoft Close | |
| The Style Hill Close | |
| The Carr side Close | |
| Carr Close | |
| The Great Car Close | |
| The Green Bank Close | |
| The Sewer Close | |
| Thakes Lane Close | |
| Dene Hill Close | |
| Ringlands Close | |
| Forsters Close | |
| Field Hail Closes | The Great field hale Close |
| The little Corn Close at Field hail | |
| The Holts under the Hale Close | |
| The Carr Lane Close | |
| The Close at Low Field | |
| Peek Close | |
| Grime Butts Close | |
| The Close at the end of Red Car Lane | |
| Reed Carr | Lounsdale Close |
| a Parcel in Reed Carr | |
| a Close in Reed Carr | |
| Mardike Closes | Mardike the Road goes down it to Leam and is included in this measurement |
| The Mardike Close | |
| Hogg Headland Close | |
| Clerks Close | |
| Clarks Close | |
| The Close by Baileys Row | |
| Flgget Bridge Close | |
| The Ings Closes | The Ings Close |
| The Six Acres Close under the Ings | |
| The Great Ings Close | |
| The three Square Ings Close | |
| In the Open Ings | |
| The Ings Closes | The Ings Close |
| Hallsdale Close | |
| Berrier Close | |
| Seating Close | |
| The Dunside Close | |
| Close near Crooked Acre | |
| The Ings Close called High Willows | |
| The Close called Pull In | |
| High Willow Close | |
| The pond Close adjoining to High Willow Close | |
| Curfue Tree Gap Close | |
| New Close | |
| The three Square Ings Close | |
| The Sand Causeway Close | |
| The Sand Causway End Close | |
| The Close called Scarse Garth | |
| Bull Bush Closes | Bull Bush Close |
| The Tacks Closes | The Close called the Tacks |
| Rainsbutt Closes | Seventeen Acres |
| Farr Low White Wath | |
| New Low White Wath | |
| Fourteen Acres | |
| House Homestead and Close | |
| Low Bell Hill | |
| Low Close | |
| Little Three Acres | |
| Smiths Close | |
| Acam Carr | a close called Fish Ponds |
| Great Pinder Close | |
| Wast Close | |
| The New Bank a road to the Common | |
| The Fishing Grounds | The Great Fishing Ground Close |
| The Great Close | |
| Crooked Close | |
| House Close | |
| The Corner Close | |
| The Hazell Closes | The Close called Horse Croft |
| Hazell Close | |
| The Close called the Clay Pitts | |
| The Quakers Burying Place by the Clay Pitts | |
| The Paddock | |
| Clay Pit Close | |
| The Lower Lease Close | |
| The Upper Lease Close | |
| Leys Closes | The lower Leys Close |
| The middle Leys Close | |
| The South Lease Close | |
| Low Croft | |
| The Little Tack | |
| A Little field called Havery Croft | in the Haverry Croft |
| Long Close | |
| The North Tacks Close |