Meaning of husbandland | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The landholding of a husbandman, that is, a manorial tenant.
   historical
2. A unit of land corresponding to a single farmstead; around 26 acres.
   historical

Examples

“The complexity of a man’s relationship to lord and neighbour is well illustrated by a grant of land at Dilston in Northumberland to Geoffrey de Cokeside 1339. He received a husbandland (probably of 25 acres) to hold at will for 30s. yearly, a more or less economic rent.”

“‘Coldlands’ of c 1715 can be traced as the ‘Cald Lands’, a six-husbandland unit in 1596 (Milne Home, no 371). These 6 husbandlands (156 acres in theory) are very nearly identical with the 157 measured acres of the survey.”

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