Circular linhay in Braunton in Devon. This linhay is located near drained marshland. Braunton Burrows is visible in the background. A circular linhay is an ancient type of structure found in England, particularly associated with Devon.
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Toronto: University of Toronto, 1982. 306. Print. In American English a linhay is an open lean-to shed attached to a farm yard.Whitney, William Dwight. "Linhay" The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language,. vol. 4.
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Linhay (rimes with finny), also spelled linny and linhay, is a type of farm building with an open front and usually a lean-to roof."Linhay" Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009 In Newfoundland English a linney is similar as a storage space, kitchen, or porch but as an addition to the rear of a house,Story, G. M., W. J. Kirwin, and J. D. A. Widdowson. "Linny" def. 1.
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Linhay at Poole Farm, Exebridge, Devon. Hay is stored in the tallet or hay- loft above and cattle is housed over winter below. The full-height columns are of rubble-stone and lime-mortar Linhay at Higher Troswell, Cornwall A linhay ( ) is a type of farm building found particularly in Devon and Somerset, south- west England. It is characterised as a two-storeyed building with an open front, with tallet or hay-loft aboveBarber, Judy, Little Torrington & Taddiport: Memories of a Devon Parish, Great Torrington, 2005, p.
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These modern structures make possible feeding and mucking out with large tractors. A rare form is the circular linhay, found for example on Braunton Burrows in Devon.
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Granite was formerly quarried beneath Haytor and an unusual granite railway constructed to transfer quarried blocks to the Stover Canal and thereby to the tidal Teign estuary. Other granite quarries operated west of Princetown at Foggintor, Swelltor and Ingra Tor. A large quarry at Linhay Hill near Ashburton works the Chercombe Bridge Limestone.
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147, "Local Vocabulary" and livestock housing below. It often has a lean-to roof,"Linhay" Oxford English Dictionary Second edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009 and the front generally consists of regularly-spaced pillars or columns. Cattle linhays were used to house cattle in the winter with hay storage above.
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Cottages at Mortehoe The Mortehoe Heritage Centre, based in the Cart Linhay building. On the upper floor is a museum of the history of the most north-westerly tip of North Devon. The museum has displays about the local farming communities, the railway, and the numerous shipwrecks that occurred off the treacherous rocks around the nearby coast. The rebuilding of the heritage site was managed by surveyor, and later landlord, Douglas Victor Watkins.
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Expansive farmyard at Duvale, now converted into residential accommodation. Part served as kennels for the Tiverton Staghounds. In the centre a wide linhay In 1880 Duvale was let to Thomas I Yandle, a farmer previously the tenant of Hele Bridge, a farm on the Pixton Estate in Dulverton, who had fallen out with his landlord.Exmoor Oral History Archive, recorded 2001, re: Tom Yandle (born 1935) chairman of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds, High Sheriff of Somerset and on both the National Trust and Exmoor National Park Committees.
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There are areas that were used for thickening the clay: settling pits, with a sloping floor, where the clay settled for several days until it had about 12% solids; settling tanks, where the clay reached about 30% solids in two to three months; the pan kiln, or "dry", where clay was heated from below by gases from coal-fired furnaces, and dried in one to three days, depending on the distance from the fire end. Adjacent is the linhay, where about 1000 tons of clay could be stored; from here it was taken away to the customer.
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Owing to the wide, open front, hay was easily thrown up into the tallet for storage after hay-making by a man standing on a hay- cart using a pitch-fork. The hay was kept dry by the roof while at the same time acting as insulation for the livestock below, and was easily fed as daily rations to the cattle below by dropping it through openings in the floor directly into hay racks accessible to the livestock. A cart linhay stored carts and other farm machinery in place of livestock, with hay above.Barn Guide in Hams, England Linhays are now largely obsolete as in England cattle are generally housed in large pole barns with corrugated iron or plastic roofs and are fed silage, either in large round bales or in troughs, chopped up by machinery.
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