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Ferriby Sluice

Other OS name in the Parish of South Ferriby

Historical Forms

  • The great sluce … at Ferriby 1696 Pryme
  • Feriby sluice 1724 Stukeley
  • the Sluice 1803 EnclA
  • for makeinge a sufficient Sluce or clowe neare the outfall of the said river of Anckholm 1625 Monson

Etymology

, 1830 Gre , The great sluceat Ferriby 1696 Pryme, Feriby sluice 1724 Stukeley, the Sluice 1803EnclA ; this must be the sluice referred to in a Commisioners ofSewers document raising money for makeinge a sufficient Sluce or clowe neare the outfall of the said river of Anckholm 1625Monson 3 / IX / 130 . For a description of the Sluice , v. Pryme 115 , who states This I had from several old men .