E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Grange.
Properly the granum (granary) or farm of a monastery, where the corn was kept in store. In Lincolnshire and other northern counties any lone farm is so called.
1
Mariana, of the Moated Grange, is the title of a poem by Tennyson, suggested by the character of Mariana in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.
2
Houses attached to monasteries where rent was paid in grain were also called granges.
Houses attached to monasteries where rent was paid in grain were also called granges.
