Old field names?

[Whitepeak]

We've got;
Ted's- has an old ruined house where someone called Ted used to live
Iron Railings- one corner is a junction so had the old railings round to aid visibility
Findlow
Pingles
Crossley
Whitefields
Night Pastures- where the milk cows would go over night
Front Croft
Back Croft
Flagg Field
Church Dale- no where near a church though
Top Side
Building- no longer any trace of any building

Used to own a Hubberdales and a Denmans

Some names refer to individual fields whereas others are blocks of fields. I'm sure there's more that I can't remember atm, really need to ask dad to write them all down for me as I can never remember them all and end up using my own names, like back planting or 3 corner or side of Highstool.

 

[Kidds]

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.

You may well know this but the name flash usually relates to a patch of water.

 

[curlietailz]

My farm is a Medieval manor in County Durham ... first recorded in 12th century as belonging to the Amundevill family

Fields are pretty much same as they are now actually. Some amalgamated into bigger ones though.
With super names like Hye Garths, Grene Hylle, West Fogg, Milne Close, Middle Corne Fylde, Fatting Close, etc. None of those names remain we call them ( in the same order) Medieval Field, Cowley House Field, Over the Road Field, Far Banks, Sand Field and Layton House Field.

Gotta day I much prefer the medieval names

 

[ollie989898]

I have a North Slait the neighbours have South Slait, have been told it is Anglo Saxon for sheep grazing, which would explain why it's sheep sick, I think they are part of the old village open field system, next to that is Uncomb wood, which was the last bit of common ground belonging to the parish, just a rough bank, and next to that is Black bush piece which has ancient black thorns in it.

I have known fields down here called that as well but I always assumed it was spelt 'sleight'. Interesting about the sheep grazing thing.

 

[michael N123]

I have a 13acre field called 17 acre

 

[gatepost]

I have known fields down here called that as well but I always assumed it was spelt 'sleight'. Interesting about the sheep grazing thing.

Read an old local diary 1902ish and it talks of fetching a ewe in with a bad bag from our North Slait, nothing changes! the neighbours field next to their South Slait is now called The Zeal, looking on the really old maps and records it actually was The Seven Seals, which I think is a biblical reference from the old testament. It always gives me a sense of belonging when I think of all the folk down the ages doing what I do, the diary mentions how many lambs they lost post tailing, thank goodness some things have changed.

 

[Goggles]

Cowmongers
Rushplatts (meaning rice field)
Bonnets Crouch
Behind Jones’ (was always called this, then the house in front of the field was bought by the Jones 20 years ago!)
Neighbouring land we farm has Cuckoo Pies
Lawmans Penthill
Boothby
Another neighbour had a field called Stockings (stalkings), he bought the next door field and called it Knickers.
Hungry Hill (it is)

 

[oakleaf]

We have a Hanging field 15ac. Not because of executions but the way it hangs on the hill.

Parade view 13 ac . You could see the army practising drill from it.

The range 16 ac. Concrete butts of the firing range still visible.

Wills mother 7 ac the furthest away field from the yard.

Canada 22 ac. Only field not in the home block. 8 miles away.

Carrotty field 5 ac. Shaped as a carrot.

Carters 17 ac. When bringing in hay or sheaves the carters used to get their dinner from a cottage in the corner so this was their favorite field.

The cobbs 11 ac. Very stoney.

And finally the potatoe field 6ac. Probably had continuous spuds back in the day. Now PP.

 

[curlietailz]

We also got Big and Little Penny Pot
That’s because it was the toll booth on the old road out of town and you had to put a penny in the pot to get through the gate.

Camp Field where the army camp was before/in one of the wars

Garage Field because it’s next to an old petrol garage

Woodend bevause it’s at the end of our wood

Bungalow..... near the bungalow

All fairly obvious

 

[Greythundercloudys]

I like this thread, we have, number4, the quarry field, the buttercup, the big dipper,below the woods, and the meadow . All nice names, and the pub field.,also the long field.

 

[fenhayman]

Learnt a few hard lessons when contracting in the 1960s.
When ploughing "10 acres" seemed to take a long time measured with a chain and once found it to be 15!
Tackled farmer who replied that dad always called it the 10 acres. Measured up lot of fields after that.

 

[Weare Cham]

I have neighbour with a field called Roly Poly.
Not sure if it was named before or after their combine did what the field is called. [emoji848][emoji32]

 

[Bald Rick]

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.

Some people contend that Tenterhooks (or even Tenderhooks) are actually derived from the hooks that kippers hang on in the smoke house.

Anyway, mine are all Welsh too including Cae Pwll Gwyddau - Goose or Geese pool field plus all the usual field names such as Cae Mawr, Cae Dan Ty, Cae Gors, etc

 

[Scholsey]

Interesting ones here are

Whitings
Blossom hill (always hell of a clover covering
Gausty (no gorse, probably used to be)
Burntside (probably burnt off at some point)
kittyfurlong (no idea)
Highbury (not arsenal fans)
Barnups (no idea, no barn to be seen)

The rest are all pretty self explanatory.

 

[michael N123]

Bit of topic but is there a cheaper place to get old maps ? I can’t enlarge this very well on the computer and it’s expensive to buy

https://www.francisfrith.com/raygarthfield/map-of-croglin-1897_rne683743

 

[primmiemoo]

There's Vuzzy Vield (tendency to sprout furze), Seldom Seen, Little Big Field, several that are Parcs.

It's highly likely that several fields are known by the wrong name. Cutting a long story short - never lend the tithe map to the outgoing occupier!

 

[APJ]

Enjoy old field names, there’s usually a reason for them, we have the Blackhorse Meadows nearest pub the Blackhorse!
Battlefield apt cause it’s yellow clay!
Awkward field yellow clay and 15 corners!

 

[Suffolk Serf]

At farms that I've worked on over the years some memorable names stick in the mind:
Lousy Bush, Granny's Grave, Clunch Pit, Wellington, Cunny Knolls, Whitethorn Queach all with regional peculiarities. I think that It's important to keep the old names going, I remember when I was at Harper in the 1980's they had just resurrected the old field names, replacing numbers, there were some right ones there: Buttery Hill, Caynton Ancellor, Swan's Leasow off the top of my head.

 

[Netherfield]

Land Rover field - brother manged to sink a landie in it
Rushes field - full of them
Peewit field - as above
White reaps - ?
Red field - at the side of Red Lane
Threepenny field - there was a property at the side called 'threepenny bit house'
Bell House - Old folks home at the side with the same name, don't know which was named after which.
Chimney field - had some sort of breather tower for the coalmine beneath, still there and maintained, at least 50 years since the mine was closed.
Cuckstool - ?

 

[shearerlad]

We have the end field and the 2nd end field. Lots of imagination used!