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Re: Low Dog Kennel Widdrington
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Re: Low Dog Kennel Widdrington
« Reply #10 on: Friday 04 July 25 15:42 BST (UK) »
Wow, My cup runneth over :D! That is a lot of information you have all kindly provided in so quick a time. I've had a quick scan and already I'm learning new things; a kennel is a gutter, who knew, not me? Is that where we get canal from? I believe you have all set me up for a good few hours of cheerful research. Thank you all.
Northumberland; Mann, Lynn, Waters, Pyle, Murray.   Yorkshire; Ellis, Heckison, Proctor.<br />Lincolnshire; Wilkinson, Dawson.<br />Cumberland; Doran, Murray. Cheshire; Sutton,

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Re: Low Dog Kennel Widdrington
« Reply #11 on: Friday 04 July 25 16:15 BST (UK) »
I know it's not in Northumberland,  :(but the best example of Kennels for drainage in a town I can think of is in Helston. My husband is from there and refers to them as Kennels.

https://museumofcornishlife.co.uk/projects/wendron-leats-and-helston-kennels/

Etymology of canal

https://www.etymonline.com/word/canal

The word “kennel,” a gutter, a drain in a street or road, is a corruption of the Middle English canel, cannel, in modern English “channel,” from Latin canalis, canal. So a similar origin.
Bulman, DUR
Butterfield DUR
 & N. YKS,
Crawhall & Ions Weardale
Earnshaw DUR
Hopps DUR & N. YKS
Howe, Richardson,Thompson all DUR

William Thompson violin maker Bishop Auckland
William Thompson jun. Violin maker Leeds

Richardson in Bermondsey/East Ham, descendants of William Richardson b. 1820 Bishop Auckland

Berger, Bareš, Fritsch, Ritschel, Pechanz, Funke, Straka & others from Czechia
Endesfelder from Saxony
Ripke from Poland

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Re: Low Dog Kennel Widdrington
« Reply #12 on: Friday 04 July 25 17:58 BST (UK) »
 :D  Thank you fiddlerslass appreciated. Don't you just love etymology?
Northumberland; Mann, Lynn, Waters, Pyle, Murray.   Yorkshire; Ellis, Heckison, Proctor.<br />Lincolnshire; Wilkinson, Dawson.<br />Cumberland; Doran, Murray. Cheshire; Sutton,


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Re: Low Dog Kennel Widdrington
« Reply #13 on: Friday 04 July 25 19:41 BST (UK) »
The Kennel here is a stream which rises in Grange Wood to the SW of the farm, where there are several tributaries flowing northwards.  Those in the eastern part of the wood converge to form a stream flowing NE towards Low Dog Kennel in an artificially straight channel.  It turns NW at the farm and meets another "kennel" just before Main Bridge, then becomes Steads Burn.  The other kennel rises in the western part of Grange Wood and forms the woodland boundary before turning north in another artificially straight channel.  These kennels appear to have been created centuries earlier to manage the drainage when the land was enclosed from larger woodlands and converted to farmland.  The addition of Dog to the name is probably a play on words.