Field names

[Kidds]

http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/TwinMaps.aspx
Gives various historic maps of Cheshire including some of the old Tithe maps, select "plot details" and it gives you the old names of each field if you are lucky.
Not all details are recorded I guess but some of our land is on there with names we still use today.

 

[Irish NZ]

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was the house burnt down?

Na just old and knocked down make getting artics into the yard a breeze

 

[MickMoor]

http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/TwinMaps.aspx
Gives various historic maps of Cheshire including some of the old Tithe maps, select "plot details" and it gives you the old names of each field if you are lucky.
Not all details are recorded I guess but some of our land is on there with names we still use today.

That is fantastic! My avatar is a painting of Gatley Hill Farm, my great grandfather's.

 

[hendrebc]

Our farm is called Hendre Bryn Cyffo. Bryn Cyffo is the hill in front of the house bryn means hill in welsh but we have no idea what Cyffo means. Tried researching it and came up blank its probably been corrupted from something else a very very long time ago. There was a gravestone in the village graveyard from someone who lived here in 1600something and the farm was called hendre bryn cyffo then.
The nearest ive found is when i came across a a sign for someone who was showing ryeland (i think) sheep in the royal welsh show. Their farm was called Hendre Bryn Caffo but that would have been a reference to saint Caffo (or Gaffo maybe) according to someone who did a bit of research for me because it was in the Llangaffo (iirc) area. So im still none the wiser what Cyffo means and neither are you after my lengthy and pointless explaination

 

[Yorkshire Square]

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

Possibly congregating place for crows?

 

[the thinker]

I have one called “the talance”. Don’t know why tho? Also have tri a pen i fields which translates to 3headed as they are next to a triangular wood.

 

[Clive]

My personal fav here is the 11 acre ...........with is not 11 acres

Most others names after old landowners etc

 

[Farma Parma]

most odd one here is Labour In Vain & its got nowt to do with politics

just to ad we have some heavy land split into two fields called the Bradley Moor but we have a much better saying for both of them & its Called (Twatfull) ground because that's exactly what it is.

 

[Philip Watkins]

most odd one here is Labour In Vain & its got nowt to do with politics

just to ad we have some heavy land split into two fields called the Bradley Moor but we have a much better saying for both of them & its Called (Twatfull) ground because that's exactly what it is.

There's a labour in vain near where I grew up.

 

[cotswoldcs]

A map of our farm (and surrounding area) with field names from 1821. Many of the field boundaries remain the same but it's surprising how field names have changed slightly over the years.

 

[Fish]

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 !!

pa, easy peasy, got a 37 acre here with 21.

My personal fav here is the 11 acre ...........with is not 11 acres

Got one of those as well, it's called, six and seven acre, which is err 42 acres.

 

[mixed breed]

A map of our farm (and surrounding area) with field names from 1821. Many of the field boundaries remain the same but it's surprising how field names have changed slightly over the years.

Fascinating read, just from that map you get the feeling some of it is not the driest. "The rushy downs"

Also good to see "slang gate". We had various slangs, but hedges were taken out and they became part of bigger field

 

[Spencer]

Possibly congregating place for crows?

We thought that but it's next to the shore away from woods but who knows.... There is a whale buried in it though.., don't think it was murdered mind..

 

[Exfarmer]

We had a Hobbs Heine , never did know the meaning, guess it could have belonged to Hobb, but Heine?

 

[Yorkshire Square]

We thought that but it's next to the shore away from woods but who knows.... There is a whale buried in it though.., don't think it was murdered mind..

Nah, can't imagine how crows might murder a whale...

 

[Two Tone]

We have a field called Near miss, named after my predecessor forgot to set the drill markers up correctly.

Our neighbours have a field, now called Disaster field, as it has never yielded anything decent since it was ploughed out of grass a few years ago. Guess which one of his fields is now going into a Mid Tier Stewardship scheme?

Perhaps we should avoid mentioning the fact that we have 25 (or part fields there of, including Near miss) of our own that have been put into said scheme for similar reasons!

 

[MrNoo]

I have a wood called "Hangman's Wood" this is on some very old maps that we managed to find in the local library. Also 55 acres that is in fact 52 acres with 17 corners in it!

 

[DRC]

A map from 1839 shows old names of fields on our place, many that we still use, although some fields have been amalgamated .
Amazing how many of the small houses or crofts had their own small piece, even the red lion pub seem to have a field, which is where our house is now, with the farmyard in Maltsmens meadow.
Funny one is Shagger dobbin, which unfortunately we don’t now use. Maybe we should resurrect it!
An explanation of some of the names as well. Interesting that the marl or clay pits were dug out with the soil being spread onto leasow land to improve it.

 

[Sparkymark]

Any fields we bought in we have continued the names previous owners called them. I like to keep the history going.
Anybody else got a field called:
Blackberry
Sand field
Hardlands
Ted field
Clovercroft
Goose field?
I'm sure folk have more common names like these:
Top field
Roadside
Big meadow
10 acre
The hill

 

[Hampton]

My personal fav here is the 11 acre ...........with is not 11 acres

Most others names after old landowners etc

Same here, we have the fourteen acre which is actually 27 acres.

Most unusual one here is called Billy bones (although no one knows why), and the prettiest is called Paradise as the views are so impressive.