Upper Greenhill Bank, Wooldale

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  • location: Wooldale
  • category: area with a cluster of properties

Extract

Holmfirth: Place-Names and Settlement (1994) by George Redmonds:

In 1434 the constable of Scholes indicted William Willeson for not cleaning his ditches and thereby obstructing the highway "apud Grene-hill", no doubt the lane which linked the "New Mill" with Scholes and Totties. No house was referred to on that occasion but John Moorehous was living at Greenhill in 1463 and only nine years later transferred the property to John Cay’s son. This John Cay (or Kaye as it is now usually written) seems likely to have been John Kaye of Woodsome, for a more detailed surrender of the property, in 1497, conveyed it to "George, the son of John Cay, Armiger". The Kaye family retained a direct interest in Greenhill for some time, but their undertenant in 1515 was Roger Broke and this man's descendants lived at Greenhill for well over 200 years. Their land lay partly in Fulstone and partly in Wooldale, evidently on either side of New Mill Dyke, and there is known to have been a fulling-mill on this site from at least 1681.

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