Field names

[snowhite]

I would hazard a guess, that your farmhouse is very old, and at some point probably before 1800 was the centre of a small estate.

Most of the land would probably have rented out and "le domain" was the only piece that the landowner kept in hand.

In England particularly, and in Wales to some extent, it equates to the Home Farm of landed estates in the 19th Century Onwards.

my house is old 14th/15th century and was a as they call it in french ( un forteresse ) there is even a point in the house that you can put out a gun to defend against attackers , so i will be safe if you come to attack me , i will pm you a photo ,only because i know you are into old things like my self,(or think grumpy and others will get mils out of that one ) as i don't want to be said again that i am trying to push myself when i am only trying to answer you , the field ( domain) has nothing to do with my farm as it is on a second farm that we have 15km away and farmed with this farm ,had being before we came , and there is not house or buildings , but near by there is 2 small chàteau so it might have something to do with one of them ,

 

[Exfarmer]

we have
village field, its in the village

cunny hills, no idea

closes, no idea

Fairly certainly corruption of coney hills
Ie rabbit hills
In fact more likely was a managed warren

Rabbits were kept in fields where there was sandy soil preferably with a small hump
This would be surrounded by a thick fence to keep them in with drop traps which allowed them out to graze when the traps were locked. This way it was easy to harvest them.

 

[roscoe erf]

longshot, vinegar hill, college pond,the drift ,redgate,devils hole,water lane,burnt ground,river meadows,top field,just a few i remember

 

[Johnny400]

All fields here are 'parks'.
Mostly named by Dad and Grandad and on one place probably the generation before that again. All fairly straight forward reasons for names if close to a shed, or garden, or next to neighbours so their surname from 50 years ago.

 

[Dockers]

Was on a farm in Wiltshire and a very steep,sideling field was called --------- Shitty Pants !!
Fantastic name for that field !

 

[Walterp]

gath/garth - no idea

A garth is a hill or enclosure. Lots of farms in South Wales called 'Y Garth' or variants thereof. Seen, also, in Yorkshire and presumably the same meaning. The one farm I call to mind is on a hill.

 

[Simon Chiles]

Was on a farm in Wiltshire and a very steep,sideling field was called --------- Shitty Pants !!
Fantastic name for that field !

That reminds me of a field I ploughed near Brighton, it was called Wall of Death.

 

[snowhite]

yes we had a field once called Nellie's meadow don't know why because it could not be cut as ti had ridges in it from the early 18th century

 

[Robigus]

Archies
Blackma
Cartlodge
Colark
Crab Meadow
Mad Dog’s
George's
Great Riddles
Bottom Great Wood
Top Great Wood
Home Riddles
Howard's
Long Ley
New House
New Pastures
Nottsy
Old House
Poplar Went
Simony
Simony New Field
Spains Hawk
Stonards
Tiller
White Ley
Wood Field
Capers
Foxes Pipe
Home Field
Long Lane
Mashey
Upper Ley
Watt's
Ways
Great Mill
Mill
Church
Lt Church
Mimi’s
Pear Tree
Gravel Pits
Bears Croft
Elms
Range
Rotten Row
Sheep's Head
Wheldon's Rectory
Tufts
Gouldings
Donnelly’s
Rectory
Rabbit
Rick’s
Barn
Big (1½ acres)
Layby
Victoria’s
The blue ones are from a neighbour's which we farmed for a few years. They had no names so we gave them these based on their location.
The exception was Victoria's which was named after my daughter because she was cross that we already had a field that had the same name as her brother.
When the farm was sold the new owner shared the same agronomist so they kept the names.

 

[Blue.]

Archies
Blackma
Cartlodge
Colark
Crab Meadow
Mad Dog’s
George's
Great Riddles
Bottom Great Wood
Top Great Wood
Home Riddles
Howard's
Long Ley
New House
New Pastures
Nottsy
Old House
Poplar Went
Simony
Simony New Field
Spains Hawk
Stonards
Tiller
White Ley
Wood Field
Capers
Foxes Pipe
Home Field
Long Lane
Mashey
Upper Ley
Watt's
Ways
Great Mill
Mill
Church
Lt Church
Mimi’s
Pear Tree
Gravel Pits
Bears Croft
Elms
Range
Rotten Row
Sheep's Head
Wheldon's Rectory
Tufts
Gouldings
Donnelly’s
Rectory
Rabbit
Rick’s
Barn
Big (1½ acres)
Layby
Victoria’s
The blue ones are from a neighbour's which we farmed for a few years. They had no names so we gave them these based on their location.
The exception was Victoria's which was named after my daughter because she was cross that we already had a field that had the same name as her brother.
When the farm was sold the new owner shared the same agronomist so they kept the names.

Good names and only one with acres,what's your sons name? "Layby" ala the beckhams kid.

 

[Robigus]

Good names and only one with acres,what's your sons name? "Layby" ala the beckhams kid.

Mimi

 

[Robigus]

Sorry, being a totally arable man now I forgot:
Crab Hill
Brook Field
Ash Grove
Park Top/Bottom
Haggards
Pightle
Gouldings Meadow
Which are still grass

 

[jimmer]

drot field , because we pushed out the hedge with one
spectacle field ,shaped like a pair of glasses
most of the rest are named after their size as we dont have many the same size (livestock farmers so in acres obviously)

 

[Charles]

Sophie Close
Church Close
The Croft
Pingle Croft
Cow Pasture
Mole Close
Muck Close
Willow Field
Top Long Shoot
Bottom Long Shoot
Hill Top
Oak Meadow
Bridge Meadow
The Covey
Rickyard
White Hill
Lower Woodland
Upper Woodland
Ley Field
Allotment
Snipehill
Knothill
Ash Gorse
Heath
Tinker Leys
Wilsons
Bayliss
Cow Crofts
Broom Field
Yards End
Broom Close
Lands
Mousehill
Redlands 5 acre
Redlands 10 acre
Redlands Meadow

These are a mixture of arable and perminant pasture the names have remained on the whole the same or similar incarnations since the early 1800s as far as we know

 

[yellow belly]

when the enclosure acts cam in to force fields were named these are available to look at in county archives and some online many field names originate from then if them

I use names for fields as they are easier to remember than numbers

 

[Blue.]

when the enclosure acts cam in to force fields were named these are available to look at in county archives and some online many field names originate from then if them

I use names for fields as they are easier to remember than numbers

When was the enclosures act?

 

[Rural Rob]

Form the 1843 sale catalogue both Upper and Lower Cut Throat Closes. They are next to an ancient village (now grass) so one can only guess!

 

[Exfarmer]

where we famed in Buckinghamshire the name of one field Cow heath was the same as that found on a 13th.c. map
the only difference was that after all the hedges being ripped out it was now 30 acres
originally before the enclosures it was nearer 100

 

[Exfarmer]

When was the enclosures act?

The enclosures were over a long period of years in the 16th to 19th. C
each individual enclosure had its own act
The main period of enclosures were 1760 - 1820

 

[Post Driver]

Where about in Bucks were you?