seeking someone with good local knowledge of DENHOLME....

[Katharine75]

Thanks for that. I will have another look at that website, because I had people from the Leeds area too.

[AiredalePete]

Katharine it is possible that the word 'mean' is a corruption of 'mesne', a legal term denoting 'between' or 'intervening'.  Mesne profits are those accruing to a landlord who is deprived of the use and enjoyment of his land.  A mesne assignment is an assignment of property that occurs prior to the last one in a chain.

Ing - a pasture or meadow, usually a low lying one near a watercourse.

[Katharine75]

Thanks for the clarification Airedale Pete. Some of those old terms are confusing 

[dobfarm]

I thought 'mesne' was an anglers fairy tail of a big illusive 'The Great white Pike' (it was ' SOoooo -BIG' after a couple of pints ) in the Airedale Ings at Allerton Bywater near  Kippax

MESNE. The middle between two extremes, that part between the commencement and the end, as it relates to time of the one that got a way

Silly me.