Land-end

Now dial. A piece of ground at the end of a ‘land’ in a plowed field. (See also quots. 1877, 1893.)

1555.  Stanford Churchw. Acc., Antiquary, XVII. 119/2. For Reping doune ye corne yt growyde at mens landds endds y^e wich was sooyd to farre upon the comon viij^d.

1610.  Quarter Sess. Rec., in N. R. Record Soc., I. 202 (N. W. Linc. Gloss.). Tho. Skelton … tooke vj^d a daie … and a land end of grass besides, of Geo. Osborne of the same.

1624.  Rental, in Sheffield Gloss., Rich. Shirtclyffe had 8 land ends at will vijs.

1870.  in E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., III. xv. 240. An’ the eller tree blossoms like snaw was besprent On the land ends ’at ligs by the side o’ the Trent.

1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., Land-ends, (1) small portions of cultivated land between the Trent bank and the road, at the ends of the lands in the open fields, more commonly called groves.

1893.  Northumbld. Gloss., Landin, Land-end, the end of a ridge or of a furrow in ploughing, or of a drill in drilling … where it meets the heedrig.

1899.  Dickinson & Prevost, Cumberld. Gloss., Heedlin’.… Land end, head rig or head-land, or those butts in a ploughed field which lie at right angles to the general direction of the others.