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<blockquote data-quote="neilo" data-source="post: 5959820" data-attributes="member: 348"><p>I’ve posted this before, but when I moved here I sat down with the outgoing tenant and a map, recording each field name so as to carry them on. I’ve always thought it a great shame when those old names disappear.</p><p>Sorry to say that most were quite unimaginative, but several are named after the old fella that used to have them many decades ago. Luncheon Field is where the estate’s shooting parties used to stop for lunch. Brick Field is self explanatory. Cricket Pitch Meadow is right next door to the hundred odd year old Cricket pitch in the middle of the farm. Decoy is next to a wood containing the remnants of 17th Century ‘finger pond’ for netting ducks. The most unimaginative have to be ‘Ten Acres’ and ‘Seventeen Acre Park’, the latter being the biggest Field on the farm by some margin. </p><p></p><p>Back home we had a ‘Lime Kiln’ and three fields aptly named No Gains 1, 2 & 3.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="neilo, post: 5959820, member: 348"] I’ve posted this before, but when I moved here I sat down with the outgoing tenant and a map, recording each field name so as to carry them on. I’ve always thought it a great shame when those old names disappear. Sorry to say that most were quite unimaginative, but several are named after the old fella that used to have them many decades ago. Luncheon Field is where the estate’s shooting parties used to stop for lunch. Brick Field is self explanatory. Cricket Pitch Meadow is right next door to the hundred odd year old Cricket pitch in the middle of the farm. Decoy is next to a wood containing the remnants of 17th Century ‘finger pond’ for netting ducks. The most unimaginative have to be ‘Ten Acres’ and ‘Seventeen Acre Park’, the latter being the biggest Field on the farm by some margin. Back home we had a ‘Lime Kiln’ and three fields aptly named No Gains 1, 2 & 3. [/QUOTE]
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