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This is actually relevant to something else I am doing but I would be grateful for any help you can give me please.

Do you live in a place or know of one that had an animal pound?

If you do,could you please tell me the name of the place and the current name of the road where it is believed to have stood.

Thank you.

This might be of interest to you...

www.animal-pounds.com/

Better explain myself on this.

It is not places that take in stray animals now that I am interested in. It is the ones that took in stray livestock in the olden days.

There are some places that very obviously had one e:g Pound Hill in Crawley.

I am not running the !Good Homes For Stray Animals Pie Company1.

I thought you meant currency :-S :-0 :-D

I hadn't heard of such a thing, what period?

Pre-enclosure really.

There was little need for them after.

I used to live minutes from Pound Hill in Crawley, never knew that was the reason it had that name

jax

Just a quick question how do you pronouce your name Sharron only thats my middle name and my mum always said it was Shar....ron rather than Sharon as is Sharon and Tracy (long before the series I might add)

Do you know the name of the road it was in though?

Before enclosure, when people had rights of common, pannage, turbery, estovers and all that, you were allowed to turn out your beasts on to the common to which you had a right.

Should your animal stray from the waste on to somebody elses land or a common to which you had no right of pasture or whatever, it could be impounded.

Think car pound!

We had a ring that held stray cattle it has been reinstated as it was a bit worse for wear. Wath Upon dearne Nr Rotherham South Yorkshire. Elaine.

I think it is supposed to be Shar ron but I don't bother with that. Ordinary is quite adequate for my needs.

It is bad enough having to spell it out without having to tell people how to pronounce it too, especially as I have a ridiculous address that needs spelling out and usually explaining as well.

Hi Sharron

In Bromham Wiltshire, there is a road called Horse Pool, I s'pose thats where they put stray horses or maybe where they were kept to be sold.

Thanks Yvonne. There could have been a pond down there I suppose that silted up years ago and is now a branch of Tesco.

It might be that there is some really obscure Middle English word that meanssomething really odd that has evoved into Horse Pool over the centuries. I can't imagine there was ever really a pool of liver.

Must have just been my mother who was fussy about how my name was pronounced then :-D

I googled pound hill but could'nt see anything apart from it being farm land before becoming swamped with houses

jax

My uncle always called me Shar ron but nobody else ever bothered.

I haven't looked that far up but Pound Hill might be on Yeakel and Gardner which doesn't show pounds.

No, it is something of my own which is nothing like as organized as that.

Thank you for pointing me toward that site. All I have been able to lacate before was a little leaflet type book.

We have a pound locally but I think it might be something much more exciting than that.