Word for today - Glebe.

[Capt Lightning]

Glebe - an area of land attached to a church to provide food & income for the parish minister.

 

[Warrigal]

Interesting. We have a suburb in Sydney called Glebe. I believe that originally most of the housing was owned by the Church of England.

 

[Capt Lightning]

An extract from local parish records...

The manse was built in 1832, and is a commodious house. The glebe consists of 5 acres, value about £. 10, and a grass glebe of 5¾ acres, value about £. 5. The stipend is 16 chalders, half meal half barley, at the fiars price, with £. 10 for communion elements.
(Chalder - an obsolete Scottish measure of dry grain. 'Fiars price' is I believe, the market value )

 

[Warrigal]

The stipend is 16 chalders

Chalders? That's a new one on me.

 

[hollydolly]

Here in our rural area we have many Glebes. loads of roads and lanes in the villages too..Glebe lane, avenue, road etc..

 

[oakapple]

Yes, here too, as we live literally next to the church.

 

[Kaila]

Interesting type of thread, this is!

 

[Geezerette]

Here’s a riddle for you : change one letter of the word & it becomes something else. What?

 

[RadishRose]

Here’s a riddle for you : change one letter of the word & it becomes something else. What?

Grebe?

 

[JustBonee]

or Globe

 

[Kaila]

…..

 

[Kaila]

a riddle for you : change one letter of the word & it becomes something else. What?

A different word with one different letter?

 

[Kaila]

It becomes "better?"

 

[Geezerette]

Grebe, a very pretty breed of duck.