Lee Fair Green
Early-attested site in the Parish of East and West Ardsley
Etymology
Lee Fair Green, also called Lee Gap (cf. Gap Ho infra ), Wodekirkelegh 1358WCR 2, Lee Croft 1708WYEnr 9, Lee Green 1771 M, Lee Fair 1817 M, Lee Fair or Green 1822 Langd. v. Woodkirk infra , lēah , feire , grēne 2 . A fair at Woodkirk was granted by Henry 1 and confirmed by Stephen to be held on the Feast of the Assumption and on the Nativity (YCh 1442); in 1306 a servant of Henry de Swynlington was to be arrested for stealing a hide at 'Wodekirk fair'.The famous Lee Fairs or Lee Gap Fairs are held here on 24 August and 17 September.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alberton Ho
- Ardsley Common
- Bag Hill
- Beaver's Ho
- Beggarington Hill
- Black Gates
- Blind Lane
- Bottoms Wood
- Bowling Beck
- Boyle Hall
- Broom Well
- Bushy Beck
- Carr Gate Fm
- Cave Lane
- Church Fm
- Coglands
- Common Side
- Denshaw Beck & Denshaw Well
- The Fall
- Fan Pit
- Folly Hall
- Gap Ho
- Griff Ho
- Haigh Hall
- Haigh Moor & Haigh Wood
- Hanging Royd Well
- Healey Croft
- Hesketh Ho
- Hopefield Ho
- Ivy Royd
- Jaw Hill
- Lowfold
- Manor Ho
- Mill Lane
- Moor Grange
- Moor Knoll
- Nook
- Old Hall
- Pilden Lane
- Red Pit
- Rein Rd
- Royston Hill
- Smithy Lane
- Spink Well Lane
- Spring Bottom
- Spring Wood
- Lower Street & Upper Street
- Stubbs Wood
- Syke Beck
- Tingley Common
- Topcliffe Grange & Topcliffe Hill
- Top Fold Fm
- Upper Green
- Watering Lane
- White Row
- Whittingley Quarry
- Who Could Have Thought It
- Windmill Hill
- Woodhouse Hall
- Woodhouse Lane
- Woodkirk Beck