18th October 2006, 01:35 PM
Dear all
Thank you all for your replies, but I maybe now able to put all your minds at rest. Flass comes from 'flasshe' old english for 'brook in marshy ground' and probably has an anglian or norse root. I had the whole of barrow country record office trying to find out for me yesterday. The area I am looking at also has the name Flass, which was given to it by Furness Abbey as one if its granges, so it predates the 15th century. Very exciting stuff. The 'pits' did seem to refer to small ponds on the alignment of a wee burn, which I was able to identify on clearer maps. Oh the joy of research!!
Thanks again, I am sure that you will all be sleeping better in your beds tonight!:face-stir: xx
the future's bright; the future's trowel shaped
Thank you all for your replies, but I maybe now able to put all your minds at rest. Flass comes from 'flasshe' old english for 'brook in marshy ground' and probably has an anglian or norse root. I had the whole of barrow country record office trying to find out for me yesterday. The area I am looking at also has the name Flass, which was given to it by Furness Abbey as one if its granges, so it predates the 15th century. Very exciting stuff. The 'pits' did seem to refer to small ponds on the alignment of a wee burn, which I was able to identify on clearer maps. Oh the joy of research!!
Thanks again, I am sure that you will all be sleeping better in your beds tonight!:face-stir: xx
the future's bright; the future's trowel shaped