carrland

English

Noun

carrland (plural carrlands)

1. Land marked by carrs; swampland.
   • 1950, Agnes Mary Conroy, The Agricultural Geography of Sandland and 'carrland' in the southern Vale of York:

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   • 1963, George Harry Dury, The East Midlands and the Peak, page 72:

     […] carrland on the regional boundary. The carrland is, properly speaking , an extension across administrative limits of country belonging to another region: it forms part of the rim of an area where post-glacial alluvium was first […]

   • 1984, Soil Survey Record of the Soil Survey of England and Wales, issues 81-85, page 16:

     Away from the carrlands the alluvium is distinctly riverine, with vermiculitic or smectitic clay and a silt content of around 30 per cent. It was deposited over a long period, probably from late-glacial to very recent times.

   • 2010, Keith Taylor, Exploring Nottinghamshire:

     Carrland comprises of pools or small ponds holding stands of willow and alder. There are several such carrs in north and north-east Nottinghamshire, but this is the only tract of carrland that I am aware of to the west.