Old field names?

Tim W

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
Waterloo ---after the battle
Peter's Field --after a first son
Hanging (steep )
Bake (top of the downs and dries out)
Abyssinia ??
Boars Bottom
Badgers Bank ---self explanatory---i've put a ferret down a hole here and seen rabbits bolt 40 mins later over 200m away
Church Close (furthest field from the church on the farm)
Misery (3 daughters buried here)

In Wisconsin i picked stones in '' barsteward's Grove''
Cut hay with a scythe in ''Wilzolaz '' (wolf marsh) ----eastern Poland (excuse the spelling , it's been a while )
 
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Bill dog

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Scottish Borders
I’ve a steep north facing field called the Bank. Last year’s spring wet then baked dry summer proved challenging for an attempted Re seed. It’s visible out of my neighbour ‘s kitchen window, so my neighbour’s Mrs has rechristened it the F@@k up field !:eek::ROFLMAO:
 

yellowbelly

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Livestock Farmer
Location
N.Lincs
We used to do a lot of work on a farm that had a field called Nansut - named after a maid from the Hall who hanged herself in the wood, of the same name, that it was adjacent to.

Apparently Nancy Sutton was pregnant by her boss, who was the Lord of the Manor :(
 

Netherfield

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Location
West Yorkshire
Have you one called netherfield

No, an old vet started calling me 'the man from netherfield' no idea why, other than he might have been a fan of the film ' the man from Laramie' , it seemed to stick with the other vets in the practice.

The vet probably knew something I didn't, but he died before I ever got to ask him, across the valley there is Nether Moor, so likely something to do with that.
 

sheepwise

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Location
SW Scotland
Around here flat fields along side rivers are called holms. These tend to be free draining good land. Also often the field closest to the farmhouse would be called the croft. We have three croft fields here as there were originally three farm steadings within our ring fence.Other field names of note here are Springwell, Spout Field, Barndunna, Scrogue and Kiln Park.
 

Dim Reaper

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Location
North Yorkshire
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We have a field that we have always known as Jawbone Field. Until a few weeks ago I thought it was because it was shaped a bit like a human jaw bone. Then this picture appeared on a local history Facebook page and it all became clear.
I asked my father about it and he could remember the bones laying on the ground in the field before disappearing. That was in the 40s when he was a boy. He had never seen a picture of them and had never mentioned them. The photo was taken in the 30s and bones would have been quite a landmark.
I think it is great that history is kept in field names.
 

sheepwise

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Location
SW Scotland
I’ve a steep north facing field called the Bank. Last year’s spring wet then baked dry summer proved challenging for an attempted Re seed. It’s visible out of my neighbour ‘s kitchen window, so my neighbour’s Mrs has rechristened it the F@@k up field !:eek::ROFLMAO:
FFS you've got off to a good start. Thought you would be over there showing them how to farm!;)
 

RushesToo

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Location
Fingringhoe
We have one called "the castard" on the tithe maps it was a group of fields called "the castards". No idea what this word means, and google just corrects the c to a b which is of no use!! If anyone out there knows, I would be very grateful if you told me.
@farmgineer All I could find is a poorly machine [?] transcribed description here:

Castard, the food, is frona the \VeI,sh
for cui'ded milk; but "custard," for a
slap on the hand, should be castid, from
the Latin castis, a club.

https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofphra02brew/dictionaryofphra02brew_djvu.txt
 

Bill dog

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Scottish Borders
FFS you've got off to a good start. Thought you would be over there showing them how to farm!;)
It’s been trying ! :rolleyes:
My neighbour’s a welsh lad, and his Mrs is a kiwi, so I’m trying to be diplomatic and not tell them to do one!:ROFLMAO:
Got 2 ton /acre of lime on it last back end, and got the drains sorted . I’ll get some grass seed from Captain Peacock and all will be well I hope !(y)
 

JMTHORNLEY

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Location
Glossop
We have Bot wood, L shape, top and bottom cow, near and far wood, ballon grey?, back mowing all things like that. Some I know we have named and others came with the place. One I do like is a neighbour of mines ground, they have a field called break leg. Was named break leg before his Granddad fell down it and broke his leg too....
 

penntor

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Livestock Farmer
Location
sw devon
Two best field names I have are Hollow Belly ( field dips to a hollow in the centre) and Leg of Mutton ( field shaped like a leg of lamb). Another I have and no idea what it means is Cock-a-Lot or Cock a Loss, cannot fully read the document it appears on.
 

Hooby Farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
roe valley
We've got the Dam field used to have lint damns in it, Simpsons falls it used to be two fields Harry Simpsons and the Falls, 1st Holm, 2holm, Whin Hill, back field, front bank, back bank.
 

raymono57

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Location
Devon
View attachment 765518 We have a field that we have always known as Jawbone Field. Until a few weeks ago I thought it was because it was shaped a bit like a human jaw bone. Then this picture appeared on a local history Facebook page and it all became clear.
I asked my father about it and he could remember the bones laying on the ground in the field before disappearing. That was in the 40s when he was a boy. He had never seen a picture of them and had never mentioned them. The photo was taken in the 30s and bones would have been quite a landmark.
I think it is great that history is kept in field names.
I have posted this on Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeL...20612583917&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic .There is an area at the entrance to Dartmouth, South Devon called "Jawbones Hill" may be some significance in the name.
 

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