ridding

1) An assart; a piece of land cleared of shrubs and trees, found principally as an element in minor place-names from the twelfth century.

These often occur in territorial ‘groups’: 1320 Edmundridding … Lyngridding … le Pynderriddyng … Wylkocridding, Hambleton.

places Hambleton
dates 1320

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