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Particularly associated with the Boffin family
Pronunciation
ya'le
Meaning
Perhaps 'fertile hill-country'1
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The YaleThe lands north of the Stock Road![]() The Yale formed a broad lowland vale running through the central regions of the Shire's Eastfarthing. To the north, it was bounded by the course of the Water and the line of the East Road, and to the south by the forested uplands of Woody End. The Stock Road ran along the Yale's southern edge for much of its length, before curving down into the valley itself and onward to Stock in the Marish, on the Yale's eastern borders. Along the northern edge of the Yale, on the East Road through the Shire, were two townships: Frogmorton and Whitfurrows. Otherwise this region was apparently sparsely populated, and indeed our only detailed map shows just a single building.2 The Yale was strongly associated with the Boffin family, though it is far from clear where their family seat lay. The Boffins may have been concentrated in the towns of Frogmorton or Whitfurrows along the Yale's northern edge, or they may have held an ancestral smial, unmarked on any map,3 within the valley of the Yale itself. Notes
See also...Alfrida of the Yale, Boffin Family, Donnamira Took, Eastfarthing of the Shire, Folklands, Griffo Boffin, Hugo Boffin, Otto Boffin, Overhill, Stock Road, Tosto Boffin, Vigo Boffin Indexes: About this entry:
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