From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> > I think I have located it! > > In my large scale (four-and-a-quarter inches to the mile) gazetteer of > the Leeds and Bradford area is a place called PLUMTREE BANKS LATHE, > not far from Addingham. A lathe is an old word for a barn and it may > well be that the barn is all that remains of what was once a farm, > since I couldn't find Plumtree Banks on the reproduction map of the > Ordnance Survey from the 1840s or on the modern OS map. > > However, Plum Tree Banks Lathe is about halfway between Addingham and > Ilkley, just off Wharfedale Road and what looks like a country lane > called Cocking Lane, about a mile-and-a-half south-east of Addingham. > What is probably the nearest inhabited farm is called REYNARD ING and > a footpath is shown from that to Plumtree Banks Lathe. There appear to > be numerous isolated farms around that area with Banks in the name - > Brocks Bank, Small Banks, Sunny Bank etc. > > Find Addingham with multimap, zoom in on Cocking Lane and then find > the junction of Cocking Lane and Lumb Gill Lane. Plumb Tree Bank Lathe > isn't marked but it's almost opposite that junction on the south side > of Cocking Lane. Mind you, my gazetteer is quite an old one (1999) so > maybe the lathe isn't there any more.> Actually, I went to multimap and located the junction of Cocking Lane and Lumb Gill Lane. If you then use the hybrid mapping (on which the street names are super-imposed onto the aerial photographs) you can see what I take to be Plum Tree Banks Lathe, a lone building about half an inch or so (figuratively speaking) to the south of the junction of the two lanes. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE