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Godfrey Maps of Sheffield 1901 - 1905 Index of names dwellings L-R


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Raisen Hall

Norwood lane

Sheet 288.16 Sheffield (Longley) 1902

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From member - Jeremy

From Addy's 'Hall of Waltheof', chapter 22:

QUOTE

There is a place between Sheffield and Ecclesfield known as Raisin Hall, which is mentioned as "Reason Haule" in 1624.[9] This is the Old English ræsn, a covering, shingle, plank, roof, ceiling, Gothic razn, a house—a word which we may see in Market Rasen in Lincolnshire. Assuming that the word hall is here used in its old sense, we may infer, I think, that Raisin Hall was originally a wooden house of considerable size. I take it that the original name was simply ræsn, used in the sense of a roofed hall, and that the word "hall" was attached at a later time when ræsn had been forgotten.

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