Old field names?

[Arceye]

Lots of lovely names, Sarlesdown, Newcombes, Plumb Park, Barretts, Black Stubbs, Glimpse Hill, Gratton and Clail (which became Clayhill Mead).
Fields got to have names, they all have different characteristics just like dogs.
We had one field called Forty Acres, but it was only two.

 

[john432]

Yes all the fields have names, passed down through the generation's, my late father knew the field names of fields of adjoining farms, and farms across the valley. Probably the result of a close nit farming community , all educated in the local primary school, kids talking, naming the fields that the hay would be harvested today, or a field ploughed yesterday. How things have changed.
The only written record I have of the field names on my farm is a sale Calalogue from 1909, when the Pantglas Estate of Llanfynydd in Carmarthenshire was broken up. Maps with Os numbers, and the fields named and recorded in size by acres, roods and perches?!? Even had a rental value ,and timber value of the farms listed.
That was when my grandfather who was a tennant, bought the farm, 84 acres for £900 if I remember correctly. I know the names of say 3 seperate fields that were bulldozed into one in the late 60's early 70's even though I only remember them as one. All have welsh names, some quite interestng ,but will probably dissapear with me...........l.

 

[maxxum5120]

Rented a field for potatoes called bermuda, got to harvesting before penny dropped, only 3 sides on field, triangle of course!

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Mine are all Welsh of course, Gwern Adda, Adam's Alder Carr; Waen Menyn, Butter Field; Pwll Du, Black Pool; Cae 'Rodyn, Kiln Field; Cae Glas, Green Field; Cae Llyn Corddi, Churn Pool Field; etc.. The last one has a little millpond which provided the water for the waterwheel which turned the butter churn. Sling is a long narrow field behind a woollen mill and I can remember the remains of the tenter frames where the newly fulled cloth was stretched to dry (tenterhooks). I've come across the same name at another mill site as well.

 

[onesiedale]

We have a Dumbles which runs along side a sunken lane ( dumbles). Target field is an old shooting range first marked on maps back in 1820. Many carry the names of previous farmers, generations ago when the estate had more tenants, Bingys, Salts, Percy's.

The one that has always puzzled us is 'Clean Waves'

 

[Green oak]

Bacons. Pringles. Old robin. Dynes. Battles. Sanfoin. Pig meadow. Common. Brick kiln. Shipley. Doules. Railing.

 

[No5]

Limekilns, Craneys, Night Meadow, River, Lodge, Straight, Coldblows, School and to confuse the harvest help, Pond, Pondwood and Wood.

 

[Walter R]

We had a shaggers field, I don't think that needs explaining.



It was called that at least as far back as the 70's, so it must've gone on in them days as well

 

[colhonk]

Mine are all called............wish it was bigger..the fields that is.

 

[Bogeyman]

Does it live up to its name?

Funny you ask as it’s nice field to work and ph never changes ,always about 6.2.

 

[Old McDonald]

I have bought five farms in four differrent countries and none of them had field names that I knew of. I have named the ones on this rather small place - Ribeiro Grove, Creek Field, Top Field, Estrada Grove, Shed Paddock, purely so that my wife and I know which part of the place we are talking about.

 

[Scrow]

Some of it is regional as well though.

Round here it would be quite common for farms to have a 'copy' field or a 'bull copy'

A field with 'ings' included anywhere in its name would probably be quite a wet field.

Lots of 'howes' and 'thwaites' too

 

[Old McDonald]

Round here

Where? This is the problem with people hiding their location and identity.

 

[Weare Cham]

I've a field called 8 acres.
It is actually 10. [emoji848]


Also one called Big field.
That is also 10 acres..[emoji848]

 

[haggard143]

thwaite and kirby and thorpe are viking we have a pockthorpe also viking? near us dad always called a field Queen Anne's land but as far as i know no royal connection

 

[Spencer]

Murder field

 

[Kidds]

Lost City

My favourite so far, I really like that one and might steal it.
I just moved farms and one of the fields has more stones than my old cobbled yard! About 35 years ago I was leaning over the gate in this same field talking to a passing old boy local. He told me this field was called The Gravels and “the next buggar is even worse!”

The only out of the ordinary name I can think of is Bollins, or Bollands. Don’t know the meaning but seen it around locally, there is a river Bollin not very far away but not close enough to be anything to do with the field.

 

[Kidds]

http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithema...hlp&e=366250&n=370500&scale=5&tabL=L1&tabR=R1
Zoom in and a lot of the field names are there.

 

[MickMoor]

http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithema...hlp&e=366250&n=370500&scale=5&tabL=L1&tabR=R1
Zoom in and a lot of the field names are there.

I like that! My avatar is a painting of Gatley Hill Farm, during the thirties, before the buildings were demolished. My Great Grandfather was John Worthington, for any locals.There were fields called Flash, Nearer Black Croft and Further Black Croft that I know of from my mother.

 

[Old Boar]

All Welsh names here of course, translated into big field, small field, house field etc. There is also pwll y broga (frog pool) and one that the man in the National Library translated as "the field full of leeches". Not seen one yet.

A neighbour has a field called maes gwaed (field of blood) where apparently there was a battle in 1116. The name has come down through time!

@john432 - the National Library has many estate books complete with field names which is where I found mine. I have spent hours and hours in the map room so a warning - once you are in there it is difficult to leave! There is also the Tithe maps of Wales on line.