Sidney Oldall Addy

Name: The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names
Author: Sidney Oldall Addy

The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

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“The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names”, published in 1893, is a work by Sidney Oldall Addy. It explores elements such as Sheffield, Gosling and Pinson Lane.

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

“ Snig Hill, then, is "snug hill," snug street, with the meaning close, retired, narrow. In the chapter on "The House" a drawing of this street will be found showing some old houses, with projecting upper stories, and possibly all the houses in the street were once of this kind. In a street already narrow upper stories projecting a long way would give an appearance of still greater narrowness, so that such a street might on that account be called "snig" or "snug." How snug some of the streets in Sheffield once were I have already shown when speaking of the Hartshead. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

“ This word prayel or praysel appears to be akin to the Middle High German brüel, brül, a word whose meaning, says Forstemann, "hovers between a wood, a thicket, and a meadow." As the only entrance to the little field was the narrow opening or "praysel-forth," it is possible that the name Brelsforth Orchards arose in this way, an orchard having taken the place of the little meadow. An alternative derivation would be from the surname Brelsforth, which was found in Sheffield. But I think that the suggestion first made is more likely. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

“ We may fairly conclude then that Camper field and Campo Lane arose from the sport of football playing, and that this may point back to a custom like that at Ashbourne. I am told that it was formerly a common thing for the boys in Sheffield to form themselves into sets and attack each other. Thus there was "the Pond Street set," "the Allen Street set," etc. A weak set used to be called "a peeny set," i.e. a puny set. It has often been observed that children carry on the games which their forefathers once played as men. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

“ Snig Hill.—In the neighbourhood of Bradford and elsewhere in Yorkshire there is a word snicket, meaning a narrow passage or entrance, or, as we should say in Sheffield, a "jennel." The word "snug" meaning comfortable, or lying close and warm, is identical with the word "snig" used in this street-name. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

“ The shops were closed and the contest was carried on with the utmost vigour, if not fury, the combatants rushing through gardens or any ground which lay between them and their goal, and often committing considerable damage. The ball was said to be galled on the middle of the mill wheel. At Sheffield there were also two mills, the Town mill or Soke mill at Millsands near the Don, and the mill in the Ponds. At Ashbourne it is clear that the football contest points to an old feud or rivalry between two opposing clans or races of settlers. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

“ Pinson Lane.—We have few "lanes" in Sheffield now. The popular idea seems to be that there is something mean and insignificant in a lane, and hence Pinson Lane now bears the grander name of "Pinstone Street." Old inhabitants of Sheffield speak of "Pinson Lane." Gosling writes it Pinson Lane in 1736, and I find a croft called Pincencroft Len in a document dated 1554. [7] "Pincen" is probably the surname Pinson, so that Pincencroft is exactly analogous to Colson Crofts, Sims Croft, Scargill Croft, and Hawley Croft, which are derived from surnames. ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

“ In Gosling's plan it is called "Camper Lane." From this evidence it appears that there was formerly a "camper field," i.e. a football-players' field, in the neighbourhood. According to Tusser the sport of the "camper," or football-player, was not only good exercise, but it was useful to the meadow, for it made the grass "grow the more fine." ”

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Sidney Oldall Addy, The Hall of Waltheof — XIX. Some Sheffield Street-Names (1893)

“ Get campers a ball To play therewithall. [11] The word "campo" is given in the New English Dictionary as a piece of obsolete school slang, meaning a playground. Two instances only are quoted, and they are both from Brinsley's "Grammar Schoole," 1612. Brinsley speaks of boys "running out to the Campo (as they tearme it) at schoole times." ”

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