What is a Rigg?
Q. Hi there
What is a RIGG as in Bulman's Rigg which is located in Spitalshield Moor, Northumberland.
Thanks,
JC
A. A Rigg is [also] a Scots word for the undulations or ridges in a field usually 15ft apart to aid drainage but with modern agriculture most of them have disappeared to facilitate modern machinery.
George Bryson, G.bryson@btconnect.com
A. A Rigg is a 'Ridge'
Mike Knipe, Crook
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