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BAILEY CROFT, in Ecclesall, anno 1807.
BAILEY HILL, an artificial mound so called in Bradfield.
- An account of this curious earthwork is given in Hunter's Hallamshire, and also in Dr. Gatty's A Life at One Living. See the word Bailey in New Eng. Dict. See a curious account of the way in which the tenants of a manor were summoned by the steward to the King's Hill, in Harrison's Description of England, ed. Furnivall, pt. i., p. 104. Blount's Tenures, 1874, p. 260. Canon Taylor, Words and Places, 6th ed., under the title 'Historic Sites,' c. 12. Cf. O. Icel. bæli, a farm, dwelling. Cf. Bailey fields in Sheffield, above Townhead Street, and between Trippet Lane and Broad Lane End. Old Map. 'Near the church at Folkestone is a place still known by the name of the "Bail," a name connected with the Court of Justice, as we see by the "Old Bailey" at London. Bailey Hill is also the name of a barrow in the parish of Friston (Suss. Arch. Coll., v. 208). See also Arch. Cant., ix. 64-5.' Gomme's Primitive Folk Moots, 1880, p. 154. The court leet at Rochester was held upon the Boley Hill (ibid., p. 151). There is a Bailey Hill within the walls of York. Bateman opened a barrow on Bailey hill between the Dove and Boston. Ten Years' Diggings, p. 169.
BAIRN or BARN, sb. a child.
BAITED. Wood is said to be long-baited or short-baited when the pieces are long or short before coming to a bough or knot.
BAKER'S DOZEN, sb. thirteen.
BAKSTONE [backstan], sb. a stone to bake oatcake on.
BALCŌNY, sb. a balcony. The o is long.
BALK, sb. a hayloft.
BALK, sb. an upturned furrow.
BALLIFIELD, a place near Handsworth.
- M.E. balʒ, flat, smooth? See FLAT. The Derbyshire surname Balgay (pronounced Baugh-ey] appears to mean 'flat enclosure.'
- See balʒ, baugh, in Stratmann. But see BAILEY HILL.
BALLY, sb. the belly.
BALM GREEN [borne green], a place in Sheffield so called.
- In Gosling's map, 1736, its position is marked as being on the south side of a pool, once used for public purposes, called 'Barker Pool.' It was at the south end of Brelsforth Orchards. The accounts of the Town Trustees show frequent payments relating to the repairs of the walls, &c., of Barker Pool, at which there was a small bridge, and which appears to have been at one time a public conduit or reservoir of water.
- 'Be it remembered that on the 9th day of September, 1658, it was agreed and ordered by the Burgesses of the Towne of Sheffield that the parcel of ground lying and being before the nowe dwelling-house of George Flint at the south end of John Stone's house on Balm Green shall not be lett to any person whatsoever, nor be made use of at any time hereafter for any
