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What Was A Croft Fold?
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The details of a property left in a will of 1835 include `Outhouses and the Croft Fold`. Could anyone please explain what the `Croft Fold` was? Thanks
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The OED assigns no specific meaning to 'croft fold'.
'Fold' can mean (among other things, of course) any of the following:
1. A pen or enclosure for domestic animals, esp. sheep ;
2. An enclosed piece of ground forming part of a farm, as a farm-yard ;
3. The ‘yard’ belonging to a mill, etc.; a cluster of houses standing in such a yard ;
4. The sheep contained in a fold. Also †the movable fold, and the sheep penned in it
So your reference might simply refer to the enclosure (or to some other form of land) but it could equally include the sheep within such an enclosure.
'Fold' can mean (among other things, of course) any of the following:
1. A pen or enclosure for domestic animals, esp. sheep ;
2. An enclosed piece of ground forming part of a farm, as a farm-yard ;
3. The ‘yard’ belonging to a mill, etc.; a cluster of houses standing in such a yard ;
4. The sheep contained in a fold. Also †the movable fold, and the sheep penned in it
So your reference might simply refer to the enclosure (or to some other form of land) but it could equally include the sheep within such an enclosure.
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