Field names

[Weare Cham]

My neighbour has a field called roly poly because that's what the combine did there. Oops. [emoji85]

 

[glasshouse]

neighbour had a field called purgatory

 

[chaffcutter]

Some of ours are named for whoever used to own or farm them, very unimaginative, but one is called the Hockey Meadow, I’ve never been able to find any reference to Hockey being played in the village anywhere so how it got that name is anyone’s guess.

 

[Lincs Lass]

I can just about remember some of the field names on the farm I started on .
Long green as it was about 800 yrds long and 40 wide
Rabbits playground ( any guesses why)
Green lane corner
School field
Home field
Manor
Woodside
Spinny
Skelly wood field

 

[JWL]

I've worked on a fair number of farms over the years and I used to have a hell of a job getting my head round the field names so I used to ask for a farm map or make my own. I came across some maps I'd made not so long ago but I'm buggered if i ca remember where I put them.
It was important for me to know which field was which and the sizes, both map sizes and what they drilled out at as on many farms I was drill man and did the spraying.
When I moved to Hereford I worked as sprayman on a tattie farm and the best thing I did was to buy an OS map as we had so much rented ground and allthough I may have ploughed or even planted some of them it wouldn't have been all of them through the season as I'd be pre-emergence spraying before planting was finished. It was easier for the boss to put an X on the map for an odd field miles from the yard than follow some of his directions........."There's a gap inbetween some houses with a wooden gate, go through that and cut across the grass field towards an oak tree and through the gap in the fence" It was only in the first year when I started half way through the season that I sprayed the wrong field with blight spray. The only reason I knew it was the wrong field was because it was a couple of acres bigger and I was running out of spray. It turned out that his field was the next one along the farm track.
I've just found that old OS map, fair bit tatty now but with quite a lot of drawing of fields on there, one year we had just under 1000 acres of spuds alone plus the wheat, barley and rape then 250 acres of sugar beet, I was busy that year. Yes we had field names on our own ground but anything else was just referred to as either the farm or owners name with the acreage as a more specific title.

 

[john432]

All the fields here have names, the same names as they would have had 150 plus years ago probably, passed down through the generations. Even know the individual names of fields that were bulldozed into one. All welsh names, some of the unusual ones , Cae rhas olwen, Cae tyn gwndwm, Cae ffynnon sawel, Rhandir fawr, Rhandir fach. Sad to think that after me names like , Daisy's field and Ermentrudes paddock will be heard...

 

[Adeptandy]

I'm really boring compared to the previous posts, the farm is in 1 block and has 3 bands of fields, so they are named T * for top band, M * for middle band and B * for bottom band

 

[neilo]

When we moved here I made a poin5 of sitting down with the outgoing tenant and a map, so he could tell me the names of the fields. Always nice to keep them going I think, and he certainly appreciated it having lived here since he was 10.

We have a 10 acres, and a 17 ac Park, but also a Jim’s Field, Marsden’s Ground and a Poston’s, which were all named after the old fellas that were there before that. Also have a ‘Decoy’, which is adjacent to what is supposed to be one of the oldest ‘finger ponds’ in the country, used for netting ducks from the 17th century.
Another is called a Luncheon Field, as it’s where the shoot always stopped for lunch between two coverts. They can feck off if they try it these days though!

 

[john432]

Wouldn' your fields neilo originally have Welsh names being in Montgomery shire? Always fascinated me , the welsh influence on place and farm names sometimes quite far from the border into Hereford and shropshire.

 

[glasshouse]

Wouldn' your fields neilo originally have Welsh names being in Montgomery shire? Always fascinated me , the welsh influence on place and farm names sometimes quite far from the border into Hereford and shropshire.

Thats coz a big bit of wales got nicked.

 

[JWL]

Thats coz a big bit of wales got nicked.

Nah, just taken back

 

[john432]

Yes the best bit, what they left us wasn't worth nicking lol.

 

[neilo]

Wouldn' your fields neilo originally have Welsh names being in Montgomery shire? Always fascinated me , the welsh influence on place and farm names sometimes quite far from the border into Hereford and shropshire.

None of the names I was given had any Welsh references at all, or I’d certainly have retained them too.

We do have a First Dyke and a Second Dyke though, which have Offa’s Dyke running along one side. That probably demonstrates our proximity to the border.

 

[glasshouse]

Since welsh was spoken all over england and southern scotland, rather a big bit got nicked.
Plenty welsh place names in scotland.

 

[DrWazzock]

We have a field called Nan Turner. A land agent asked us if our gran was called Turner. Nothing to do with our grandparents. It was called Nan Turner for the last 200 years at least but why it was called this remains a mystery.

Another field is known as Platts Flat, which has probably been mixed up because platt means flat around here.

Most names seem to have come down the centuries with a few corruptions.

 

[glasshouse]

T

We have a field called Nan Turner. A land agent asked us if our gran was called Turner. Nothing to do with our grandparents. It was called Nan Turner for the last 200 years at least but why it was called this remains a mystery.

Another field is known as Platts Flat, which has probably been mixed up because platt means flat around here.

Most names seem to have come down the centuries with a few corruptions.

That field was probably nan turners farm before the peasants were cleared away

 

[Irish NZ]

We've named 1 paddock(field) on this farm Narnia because when i first took a spin down there all i saw was the last battle scene from the first narnia film.

At home we have;
The front of the house(that particular house is gone)
The doreen
The flax field
The big hay field
The gate field
The rake and drain
The top of the end of the road
The gravel pit
Daniels field
The hens field
And the bog.
Strangely there is also no. 1 to 4 also seems very out of place.

 

[DrWazzock]

T

That field was probably nan turners farm before the peasants were cleared away

Interesting historical research project.

 

[glasshouse]

My family farmed a place from 1870, it had michaels park, stevensons park etc.
They were the occupiers before the landlord evicted them to form a bigger farm to pay more rent

 

[glasshouse]

W

We've named 1 paddock(field) on this farm Narnia because when i first took a spin down there all i saw was the last battle scene from the first narnia film.

At home we have;
The front of the house(that particular house is gone)
The doreen
The flax field
The big hay field
The gate field
The rake and drain
The top of the end of the road
The gravel pit
Daniels field
The hens field
And the bog.
Strangely there is also no. 1 to 4 also seems very out of place.

was the house burnt down?