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<blockquote data-quote="Bootneck" data-source="post: 5959596" data-attributes="member: 3619"><p>I bought my land from a city lawyer who held it as an investment and was not interested in its history etc, and had no idea about field names, so I named them all myself. Then a few years later found old tithe maps in the local records office dating from the early 1800’s that included field names, so now have learnt the old names. Some good ones. Onion field, Long clover field, Little clover field, calves field, struts field, mountain field, hollow field, and one called Steel Yard Shaw associated with early medieval ironworks.</p><p>At my dads farm we have a caravan field that last had a caravan in it 20 years ago!</p><p>And my farm is called Egypt House Farm, apparently the Egypt bit is from Gypsies who were called Egyptians when they first appeared in the country in the sixteenth century, and a group of them settled here long ago!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bootneck, post: 5959596, member: 3619"] I bought my land from a city lawyer who held it as an investment and was not interested in its history etc, and had no idea about field names, so I named them all myself. Then a few years later found old tithe maps in the local records office dating from the early 1800’s that included field names, so now have learnt the old names. Some good ones. Onion field, Long clover field, Little clover field, calves field, struts field, mountain field, hollow field, and one called Steel Yard Shaw associated with early medieval ironworks. At my dads farm we have a caravan field that last had a caravan in it 20 years ago! And my farm is called Egypt House Farm, apparently the Egypt bit is from Gypsies who were called Egyptians when they first appeared in the country in the sixteenth century, and a group of them settled here long ago! [/QUOTE]
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