Clapgate
A clapgate (also clapyates) is a kind of gate which opened onto a waste or common land which allowed the animals going onto the common to push it open but which automatically shut so that they could not get out.[1] This feature has given its name to a number of locations in England.
Places called Clapgate
[edit]- Clapgate Pits (Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust)
- Landseer Park: there is a clapgate marked as being where Clapgate Lane reaches Landseer Park
- Woolaston: O. G. S. Crawford argues that turning Clapyates into Clap-Y-Ates showed the "misplaced ingenuity of some amateur philologist" as the term has no meaning in Welsh or any other language.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b O. G. S. Crawford (1921). "Place-names". www.cantab.net. Retrieved 6 October 2019.