Sentence:  Indeed, a map of 1844 marks some of the lower terraces on the southern and eastern flanks of the hill as "Tor Linches," a linch or lynchet being a terrace of land wide enough to plot. (Some <WSD>linches</WSD> were deliberately Fashioned; others came about as the land flattened into platforms through being worked.) 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A ledge, a terrace; a right-angled projection; a lynchet.