Hi all, Thanks for your help with this – you have all been brilliant. That is you have said, between you, what I hoped to hear! I am sure that the general meaning of abuts must be right and this narrows down the area where the ‘Great Hey’ must have been to the banks of the Calder which form the boundary of the manor for a mile or two. This being a woodland area generally (or was, previously) there are many instances of ‘hey’ in minor place names – as to exactly why this was named a hey is not yet entirely clear, it would seem to adjoin or at least be very close to the park (mentioned in the same document) so it may have been simply woodland whose resources were to be exploited in common by all three men or may have had some role in stock management. Further documents, if they exist, may shed light on this – but this is something of a breakthrough, only one published work on the town attempts to give a location for the Great Hey and that would now appear to be wrong. Thanks again, Barbara