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名詞

endship (複数形 endships)

1. (obsolete or historical) A village, or part of a village or parish, in England.
   • 1647, Collections, volume 11-13, published 1918, page 73:

     February 20, 1647, David Greenman and his brother Edward sold to John Greene, husbandman, of Newport, twenty-two acres of land near the endship or village called Greenend, bounded on the southwest side by the road leading from Newport to Portsmouth.

   • 1797, Edward Ironside, The History and Antiquities of Twickenham: Being the First Part of Parochial Collections for the County of Middlesex; Begun in 1780, page 109:

     Twickenham hath two villages or endships belonging to it, which are confidered as a part of its parish.

   • 1872, Richard Stuteley Cobbett, Memorials of Twickenham: Parochial and Topographical:

     In addition to Whitton, Ironside mentions another "endship" of the parish of Twickenham called HEATHROW or HETHROW, which must have consisted of a very small collection of houses somewhere on the banks of the Thames, now quite forgotten.

   • 1983, Arthur Palmer, A History of Whitton, page 4:

     Whitton Dene was what was known as an endship, that is it was a small suburb or hamlet joined to Whitton, but with its own little community.

   • 1993, R. A. Croft; Dennis C. Mynard, The Changing Landscape of Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes:

     It was split between the two townships or endships of Shenley Church End, 673 ha (1662 acres) and Shenley Brook End, 671 ha (1659 acres). The long and straight north-eastern boundary followed the line of Watling Street.

   • 2013 October 11, Jonathan Murdoch; Terry Marsden, Reconstituting Rurality, Routledge, →ISBN, page 106:

     The village emerged from a number of “endships” and the form of the village can be ascribed to "frontage" development along the roads linking these “endships”. Between these roads infilling has occurred and there has also been the […]

参照

• “endship”, in Collins English Dictionary.