oregate

1) A highway along which lead ore was transported.

It gave its name to a farm in Marske in Swaledale which was owned by the Conyers family and named as Orgate in a charter of 1477. In 1531-2, William Conyers left to his son the lease of his leid mynes ... and Orgate.

dates 1477 1531-1532

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