>From "The Manor of Wibsey, the Town & District", Stella H. Carpenter. "Pot Houses and Tordoff Green" "Retracing one�s footsteps along North Road, 150 years ago only a track across the easternmost tip of the slack, Tordoff Green is soon reached. Nowadays the green, originally stretching down to Pot House(sic), is only a fraction of the size it once was. The 1790 map shows a quarry there, whilst the O.S. map of 1847 shows the whole area as part of the slack. The houses we see today were already there and from the 1790 map it seems clear why this are bears the name of Tordoff: Esquire Tordoff, Samuel Tordoff and Jonas Tordoff, clearly three different persons, each have homesteads here-abouts and one or the other or all of them occupy four other buildings. Tordoff, but which one it does not say, also occupied Palm Close, so we know that the place name has not changed, as some have, during the last 200 years." Note: more on Tordoff in Chapter Seven. "At a land ownership trial in York, Stephen Barraclough. Aged 62. Said he resided at Penny Close Farm, and in 1904 his grandson Thomas William Barraclough still lived there. The property, which has been much altered over time, was apparently dived in the late 19th or early 20th century when two Barraclough brothers had a dispute." Ted Barraclough [email protected] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com