husbandland

Noun

husbandland (plural husbandlands)

1. (historical) The landholding of a husbandman, that is, a manorial tenant.
   • 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.1988, Edward Miller, “Social Structure: Northern England”, in H. E. Hallam, editor, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes 2, 1042–1350, →ISBN, page 698
2. (historical) A unit of land corresponding to a single farmstead; around 26 acres.
   • ‘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.2001, J. Donnelly, “In the territory of Auchencrow: long continuity or late development in early Scottish field-systems?”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume 130, page...