Field names

[mixed breed]

What do you call your fields, and how much history is behind thier names.
I find it quite fascinating. Some names are self explanatory, we all have the "back paddock", the "front field" or the "6acre"

But some names do have heritage. These go back to before the 1930s when my grandfather started work here.

The gorsty Moor, gorsty clearly means peat round here.

Pigeon field. Once had two big round dove cote's upon it. Supposedly home to carrier pigeons.

The gorsty corner, peat at one end.

Deadmans Moor, peat bog, where a horse supposedly got stuck and it's owner got sucked in while attempting a rescue.

Church way, shortcut to the Sunday service.

The marpits, heavy red clay, with two deep pools which were supposedly quarries at some point.

Some newer names include the Barclays bank. Guess what it's on an incline, and we bought it off Mr Barclay

 

[Banana Bar]

I’ve got several fields I could call Barclays Bank!

 

[Shutesy]

https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/field-names.12585/
Few to get you started
Ours are mainly either the size they are in acres or what they are next to in the locale.

 

[chaffcutter]

There's a long thread on here somewhere.........

Too late again, Shutesy's got there first !

 

[slackjawedyokel]

Some of ours had names made up in the days of IACS, when each field was supposed to have a name. Some are quite imaginative, such as Far Field, Middle Field etc.

 

[Weare Cham]

I've got a field called Cocks Down.
Nothing to do with penises. [emoji23]

 

[mixed breed]

I've got a field called Cocks Down.
Nothing to do with penises. [emoji23]

Guess it makes an interesting conversation..
What you been on?
Oh I've Been busy mowing the cocks down

 

[Billm]

Back in my young days we had a field we called "Mums Field". The single track road from our place was being resurfaced, so to save any hold ups dad opened a gate to a grass field which ran the length of the road works and had another gate at the other end. Mum was wanting to go to the shops so dad told her to drive through the field. On the other side of the road was a new ploughed field which had been spread with lime the day before and the gate had been left open . Mum saw the open gate and the tracks in the field and thought it was the field dad had meant. She made it to the far end of the field ok ( good old Austin A55 Cambridge) but there is no gate, She stopped there and walked home for help. There was no damage to the car so Dad took no chances and cut open the fence on to the road and off she went. We all had a good laugh and since then always called that field "Mums Field.

 

[michael N123]

I have a field called 17acre thats 13 acres

 

[Doc]

We are lucky enough to have all the original conveyances back to 1805. Field names and sizes all neatly annotated in copperplate on waxed paper and refer to hills, barns, wells and just some random names we haven't researched. Very interesting. We call them the same names as we have a few of the oldest docs framed in the lounge and the kids have grown up with them there.

 

[Still Farming]

Few welsh names and then size names - location names-what happened in field yrs ago name etc etc.

 

[Netherfield]

We rented land from Yorkshire Water, one field there was called 'The Land Rover field' , brother found a wet spot and really sunk it in.

 

[farmerfred86]

Our neighbour simply uses numbers.... how unromantic!

 

[jonny]

Calling them all wet fields today

 

[Bob lincs]

We have fields called Washpit and Burnt house , we also contract farm a 34ac field with 19 corners I won't say what we call that one !!

 

[Dog&stick]

We still use the old names off tyve maps,

9 bullock pasture
Strawberry meadow
Side house field
Burnt mill
Mill pond
Dingle dell
Wheelwrigths way
Grove field (still in ridge & furrow)
Heartbreak
Poor piece
Morrells

 

[yellow belly]

We found some names on the enclosure act for one block
The ones we have farmed longest were named by my grandfather where he got them from I do not know

 

[Spencer]

Farm we do work on has one called "Murder Field", no one knows why it got its name though...

 

[DaveJWales]

We asked the previous owner, who didn't know any historic names, so we made some up. They include Top, Bottom, Steep, India (due to the shape) and Iona (in memory of a horse). I used these names with RPW but they don't seem to be recorded online - the grid ref field numbers don't mean anything to me.

 

[waterbuffalofarmer]

We have specific field names too. For example... "Burnt out tractor field". Literally landlords worker, years back, was working and tractor caught fire (don't ask me how). They removed the wreckage later on. Then we have "Lookout post field" which has a historical look out post used by home guard in second world war. Fascinating tbh