house-row

1) A row or series of houses; house by house.

The examples noted are in the north and east of the county and seem to refer to a system which allocated township tasks fairly: 1675 That due watch and ward be kept by persons fit and of able body by house-row, or at the charge of the Constablery, Helmsley

1705-8 hath severall times himselfe kept watch att Reeth by house row. The OED quotes a similar example of 1896 for Sutton-in-Holderness.

dates 1675 1705-1708 1896

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