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Masham is a small market town and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 1,235. Situated in Wensleydale on the western bank of the River Ure, the name derives from the Anglo-Saxon "Mæssa's Ham", the homestead belonging to Mæssa. The Romans had a presence here, but the first permanent settlers were the Angles. Around 900 AD the Vikings invaded the region, burning and laying waste to the church and causing great suffering in Masham. They also introduced sheep farming, something for which the town is well known today.
The Masham is a breed of domestic sheep which originated in northern England. It is the progeny of a Teeswater ram and either a Dalesbred or a Swaledale ewe. The ewes are hornless.
The breed takes its name from the town of Masham in lower Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.
Masham is a town in North Yorkshire, England.
Masham may also refer to
- Masham, Yemen, a village in west central Yemen
- Masham (sheep)
- Baron Masham, a title in the British peerage
- Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659-1708), English theologian
Usage examples of "masham".
I requested of you, and provide me with the direction of Miss Charlotte Masham of this city.
Charlotte Masham was the third generation of her family to have been born in America, so it was hard to believe that any familial ties to the Old World remained.
Cousin Masham was read such a jeremiad as must have caused her ears to ring for weeks afterward, and at the end of that confrontation Sarah and the single trunk containing all her worldly possessions reposed within Mrs.
Sybella Honoria Masham Dyer, Dowager Duchess of Wessex and grandmother of the present Duke, had no interest in the beauties of the English countryside.
Bolingbroke insinuated himself into the confidence of lady Masham, to whom Oxford had given some cause of disgust.
This suggested much to Daniel, for he knew that the family Masham were close friends and patrons of John Locke.
As it was, the laboratory that those three lonely hereticks had set up on the Masham estate seemed a masque of what Wilkins and Hooke had done as guests of John Comstock.
Daniel had no stomach for the game and so with a silent gesture to Masham he ducked out of the room.
June 1645, the day of the battle of Naseby, but her great days had been during the last years of Queen Anne, when she had known Godolphin and Marlborough and been received by Lady Masham, having her feet planted in both camps.
If she had enjoyed the power to do so she would have proclaimed the wisdom and majesty of Locke from every housetop, and she envied Lady Masham her free and constant intercourse with so beautiful a mind.
She probably chose this place on account of the Locke connection and the friendship of Peter King, since there is now much in her correspondence about Damaris, Lady Masham, and others in that circle in which George Burnet himself was intimate.
There was a choice, ever-comforting, and sacred friendship between the great John Locke and the excellent Lady Damaris Masham, the only daughter of that ornament of the English Church, the learned and benignant Cudworth.
Lord Scrope of Masham, and Sir Thomas Grey of Heton, about the means of recovering to that nobleman his right to the crown of England.
AI system and be registered resident in the Translation Unit at Masham Abbey.
French breeds, your Swaledales and your Mashams and your Leicesters with the low gates.