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Survey of English Place-Names

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Almshouses

Other OS name in the Parish of Kingerby

Historical Forms

  • shall build or cause to be builded and erected, an Almshouse to contain six convenient rooms … for the free dwelling of six poor Men and Women 1675 MiscDon 1725

Etymology

, 1824 O , 1930 Gre . Thomas Bell , in his will , instructed that his heirs shall build or cause to be builded and erected ,an Almshouse to contain six convenient roomsfor the free dwelling of six poor Men and Women 1675 (1725) MiscDon 238 , 183 ; the original will has not so far been found .