dial. [see GARTH.] A churchyard. (Intermediate between churchyard and northern English Kirkgarth.)
1570. Levins, Manip., 34. A church garth, cœmiterium.
1602. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 136. For mending the churchgarth yeats, 6d.
1851. N. & Q., Ser. I. III. 380/2. The term God’s Acre as applied to a Church-garth.
