Greenhow
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Greenhow is a village in Yorkshire, where there is also a Greenhow Hill.
The parish of Ingleby Greenhow has records of a John Thomasson de Grenehow, a member of the clergy, who in 1376 "had to appear before a Commission appointed to be tried with several others for either poaching or cutting down timber, or destroying property belonging to Peter de Malo Luca the 6th, of Mulgrave Castle".
The name may derive from the Saxon for Green meadow.
- Edward Headlam Greenhow was a British consulting physician whose academic studies and negotiations with the government led to the environmental clean-up in the late Victorian era and the end of cholera and typhoid epidemics.
- Rose O'Neal Greenhow was a Union society lady who acted as a spy for the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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