Field names

[RushesToo]

The 1910 Finance Act made another Doomsday book of the UK - it was to tax land. They made maps and all the maps are identified with numbers that can be looked up in the accompanying record book. Although your can see the copyright maps for free here:
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html
The record books that will probably have the field names are likely only to exist in the local records office.

 

[ARW]

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.

Could be bang on there, it's our lightest land with a few small humps here and there, so makes sense

 

[bobk]

The 1910 Finance Act made another Doomsday book of the UK - it was to tax land. They made maps and all the maps are identified with numbers that can be looked up in the accompanying record book. Although your can see the copyright maps for free here:
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html
The record books that will probably have the field names are likely only to exist in the local records office.

That's very good , amazing how all our best fields were the same size in the 1870's , I can't believe how many trees I've cut down, oops
Makes you respect your predecessors

 

[rob1]

That's very good , amazing how all our best fields were the same size in the 1870's , I can't believe how many trees I've cut down, oops
Makes you respect your predecessors

Ours are mostly the same, perhaps some of the people who claim all the hedges in the uk have gone would like to check these old maps

 

[Blue.]

For anyone in Lancashire a good site here for viewing arial photos,1940s 1960s and nearly present day.

http://mario.lancashire.gov.uk/agsmario/

 

[Blue.]

Ours are mostly the same, perhaps some of the people who claim all the hedges in the uk have gone would like to check these old maps

I've found photos from the 1850s taken of our farm and its unbelievable how many trees we have now,I need a big outdoor boiler to bring it back to how it was.

 

[Spartacus]

" The Shard bridge goes over the River Wyre out on the coast near us, maybe a precarious, rocky stretch of the river?

Rocks near pilling?? More likely pebbles

 

[Flossie]

Rocks near pilling?? More likely pebbles

I know!! There's naff all but spuds to trip over out that way Was thinking out loud when I couldn't find anything about why it's so named

 

[Townie]

We have a room called Enid's room. Despite the fact Enid kicked the bucket at least 20 years ago.

 

[snowhite]

We have a room called Enid's room. Despite the fact Enid kicked the bucket at least 20 years ago.

 

[llamedos]

I've found photos from the 1850s taken of our farm and its unbelievable how many trees we have now,I need a big outdoor boiler to bring it back to how it was.

get em scanned and posted on here

 

[Mounty]

A couple that spring to mind on farms I go to are a field called 'Pikeys', obvious once you're there. Another one called SH*T, I asked why, and he said no reason but every crop it grows is sh*t. If I have to send a sample to the lab I usually call it Shot.

Personally, the field names I dislike the most are Chalk Pit and Lime Kiln.

 

[jade35]

Starve crow
Parsons Piece
White cefns
Black cefns
Top and bottom riddings
Mountain leasowe
Black leasowe
White leasowe
Oilground, absolute barsteward in the wet,
Workhouse meadow
Rookery, no wood anywhere near.

Assume that was a poor field? Remember my father talking about a farm called Starve All and how the wind used to blow through the valley

 

[Old Boar]

I am lucky in that my place was part of a large estate and I have managed to get a copy of their estate maps, with the fields marked and named from 1803. Disappointed that they were not that interesting, but translated from Welsh, they were top field, bottom field, rough field, field with a ford, etc, but one translates as Leech field (and yes, there are still leeches!). Shapes of fields and some of the trees are the same.
Talking to a local farmer, he said he had got a lovely crop of barley off one of his fields that his father and grandfather had never ploughed, as they "knew" it should not be ploughed, and he did not understand why. I did a bit of research and found it was probably where they buried everyone local in the plague. Oh dear!

 

[Exfarmer]

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Personally, the field names I dislike the most are Chalk Pit and Lime Kiln.[/quote]

 

[Exfarmer]

A lot of land reverted to scrub after the farming depressions in the 1880's and more so in the 1920-30's
It was. The clearance of these areas in th 60-70's generally caused the most anguish as very often local people had become used to treating it as common land for all to use for recreation.

 

[Walterp]

A lot of land reverted to scrub after the farming depressions in the 1880's and more so in the 1920-30's
It was. The clearance of these areas in th 60-70's generally caused the most anguish as very often local people had become used to treating it as common land for all to use for recreation.

I thought that everything got ploughed up at the War Ags' direction from 1939/44?

Certainly in even some poor districts in Wales, even very disadvantaged land got cultivated.

 

[Exfarmer]

I thought that everything got ploughed up at the War Ags' direction from 1939/44?

Certainly in even some poor districts in Wales, even very disadvantaged land got cultivated.

It is surprising but a lot of land was never ploughed till later.
Large areas of down land and the Brecks
Perhaps some was used for training but I guess they did not have the resources for scrub clearance.
Of course following the war every man and his friend had ex WD bulldozers and even the technical knowledge to blow tree stumps ( great fun watching when I was a boy, and even being allowed to handle TNT !)

 

[Pilgrimmick]

We have the ‘Battlefield’ not surprising actually, as was the site of a battle in 1308. Others are the usual, top field etc

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Yes. There manly field and for that matter Farm or Place Names that commemorate past conflicts.

Maes y Gwaed - Field of Blood
Maes y Frwydyr - Field of Battle
Rhyd yr Ymladd - The Ford of Battle
Rhyd y Gwenwyn - Denoting a Ford, where the water was poisoned.

There are many names where the ending is Saison or Saeson the Welsh for Saxon, and again denote forgotten conflicts.

On the land I own, one Field is listed in deeds as "Cae main hir". This translates as the "long thin field".

It did not make sense as the field is rectangular. It was only by looking at old maps, and Tithe Schedules, that I discovered that the correct spelling was "Cae Maen Hir". This translates as the "Field of the long Stone" or monolith. On old maps a standing stone is shown in the field.

Anyone interested in the original names, should consult the Tithe Schedules and accompanying maps, and the old Deeds of their property, as the names of fields were not always passed from owner to owner.

We have one field, Cae Brynsaeson, which is next door to Brynsaeson, I think I remember someone saying that an english army camped on the hill, hence the farm name Brynsaeson (english hill), and I guess that is the field next door to Brynsaeson. The also Lan Fawr Isaf, and Uchaf (upper big Lan, and Lower big Lan) both near Lan farm.When I worked on a farm in Herefordshire we had a Far Bar Gains and also a Stony Hurst (and it was full of stones).