Field names

[noflippinguse]

How many of us have fields with interesting stories behind their names?

We have 'Signpost Field', so called because there is a stone signpost type thing that has been in the hedge for as long as I can remember, from when the village road used to go through the field.

We also have 'Ladies Corner', I am not sure about this one!

'Pylon field' has a pylon in it

The others don't really have names.

Do all your fields have names?

 

[snowhite]

we still use names on some fields , the same names as the farmer before us called them , so they would be in french

 

[ARW]

we have willow tree field! doesn't have a tree in it!

 

[Walterp]

Stark Naked Field - no, I don't know why, either..

Lots of Egypt Meadows around here, 'cos of the Napoleonic War. We have Stony Field (but it's not very stony), Upper Charlie and Lower Charlie (but we don't know who 'Charlie' was), Foggy Meadow and Football Field (where, if anyone reading this is from Pembrokeshire, the young and sprightly Mr Trevor Nicholas of Martletwy Show and YFC fame played, err, football as a lad).

Every field has a name, most are straightforward, all are inherited.

 

[Spartacus]

Got one called ash potts cos its where they used to smelt the iron out of the rock in there so there would be lots of piles of ash in there, black hills cos of the peaty soils, poverty meadow and poverty pasture cos they are just sh1t tatie garden cos they grew spuds there, pipe tracks cos of the therlmere aquaduct that runs under it. And yes, all fields have a name of sorts, no matter how boring it is!

 

[Wheatland]

We have the 9 acre. It's 4.4ha (11 acres)

 

[snowhite]

We have the 9 acre. It's 4.8ha (11 acres)

it must have being an irish acer would be about right

 

[snowhite]

We have the 9 acre. It's 4.4ha (11 acres)

had you any paddy in the heritage

 

[ARW]

we have
village field, its in the village
best field, best one!
shed field
miss stevens, that's the woman who owned it yonks ago
cunny hills, no idea
biggles's big field, big field that was biggles's
four arses, fat woman used to own it
we have at least 4 fields called 11 acre
back field
front field
stone field, very stony
closes, no idea

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Birch wood field, backs on to a wood...or did when it was pulled out for an airfield during the war!
The old roughs...no idea why.I call it tree house field cause its where my tree house was 30yrs ago

 

[rc mx110]

How many of us have fields with interesting stories behind their names?

We have 'Signpost Field', so called because there is a stone signpost type thing that has been in the hedge for as long as I can remember, from when the village road used to go through the field.

We also have 'Ladies Corner', I am not sure about this one!

'Pylon field' has a pylon in it

The others don't really have names.

Do all your fields have names?

Yes but all are in Welsh, most have a name that you can work out
Roughly translated:
Field behind house/ shed
Slope by the house
Night field
Quarry slope
Field by the yard
Slope by the cwm
New field
Small slope, etc

 

[Spartacus]

Yes but all are in Welsh, most have a name that you can work out
Night field

the rest i can understand but this one? were they only allowed in there at night?

 

[snowhite]

drainage it has being drained still wet ,
le domain , is a called that on the map ,
hen house , wood ,village ,so much the same as you guys

 

[Walterp]

@IANTO may be along shortly to explain that there are loads of Maes y Gwaed (Field of Blood) around the Principality, arising from long-past battles. Variations, too, referring to soldiers and battles.

 

[spanners]

Witches field, actually has a witch buried in it, not your average one either was a real nutter apparently

 

[rc mx110]

the rest i can understand but this one? were they only allowed in there at night?

The fields with the name: night field and field by the yard, are next to each other but nowhere near our yard now. We think donkey years back there might have been a small farm there and stock moved to the night field so they would be safer. From what i'm not sure

 

[Northdowns Martin]

Most of mine are self explanatory, Cow Shed, Cottage field, Stalks wood etc. all except Cats Brains? No one seems to be able to throw any light on its name

 

[Blue.]

Most of our field names are 200+ years old,only a few have changed due to fields being amalgamated.

My dad has a field called "Dans knob" far better than unamaginately named fields like my father in-law has like "side of drive" and "opposite tin barn field"

 

[le bon paysan]

Starting next to the road, arable followed by grass fields.
the road ground'
ashbrook
hancocks field
mushroom ground
moonfields
the park or parks if spilt.
grass. home gd
hancocks orchard
seed gd
little rodcombe
rodcombe
chilla (change under wear time doing anything in there)
back gd
and last milkup

old farm in England

 

[Blue.]

@IANTO may be along shortly to explain that there are loads of Maes y Gwaed (Field of Blood) around the Principality, arising from long-past battles. Variations, too, referring to soldiers and battles.

Have a field called "Peacecarr" supposed to be where they made peace after the battle of Billington.