1) An alley or narrow lane in a built-up area, often at right angles to the main street.
It is found in the north and east of the county and the earliest references are in undated thirteenth-century charters for Yarm: in venella que vocatur le Crossewend
in venella jacentibus quod dicitur le Kyrkewend. Later examples there suggest that the clerk may have been ‘translating’ a word: 1649 a vennell or common weind or lane
1660 a common weinde or loaning, Yarm. It is found as a by-name in the East Riding: 1381 Robertus at Weynde, Southburn and in some other east Yorkshire towns: 1442-3 'a toft lying in le Wend in Tadecastre as the road se extendit towards the church and abutted on the high street'
1505 a burgage in Richmond lying in a street called Franchgate ... abutting on lee Kirkeweynde.