Terms for “field”: FURLONG (9exx.); ACRE (2exx.), LANDES (strips in a furlong, 3 exx.); LINCH (ploughed land on a hiull edge, 1 ex.); BUTTS (end pieces of a furlong, 1 ex.); START (ditto, Over and Neither Star(r)); BREACH (newly broken land, Wod BREACH, BRIDGE Acre Field); GRATTEN (stubble field, 1 ex.); HAM (water meadow; necHAM may mean “at the extra water-meadow”); PASTURE (2 exx.); HAY (hedged or fenced field, usually pasture, 1 ex.); CROFT (2 wxx.); CLOSE (11 exx.); FIELD (a group of furlongs; in Ashendon - Broad Water Feild, Middle Feild, Oxeleys Feild; in Pollicott only Bridge Acre Feilde is named); ; WALLKE (Sheep Walkes); ERSH (“ploughed field” - Nut HURST?)

Specification by Size: LITTLE and/or GREAT Long Thorne, Hay, Gratten Hedge, Pasture; The 30 Acres (2 ex.), the 40 Acres;

by shape: LONG and/or SHORT Meade, Woodwaym Meere, Reade, Burfurlong, Merne; Tithe HOOK; Deep GORE; BROAD Waters;

by Directional Location: NEITHER and/or OVER Lawes Ditch, High Doune, Midden Hill Star(r), Gratten Hedge, Landhurst, Furlong; HIGH Doune; Ashendon END; Astons Hill/Haines Hill FOOTE; EAST/WEST (Wawen, Deep Gore), MAST Furlong DEEP (Gore, Rowle);

Prepositional: Hole ON the Hill; by Age:OLD Ware;

By Topography: HILL (4 exx.); The HANGERS; (?) LANDHURST (“wooded hill/on the boundary/or belonging to the estate”?), Nul HURST (? - but hurst here is inappropriate; is it a corruption of ERSH “ploughed field”?); High DOUNE (“hill”); BROOKE meade; Broad WATER; Rush SLAD (“dip, depression”); Lawes DITCH; Snayuules WELL (“spring”); Goose BATH (“pond”); Old WARE (“pond”); RIDGEway;

by Crops: PEASE Furlong; LILlandes (? from LIN-landes “flax”); WOD Breach (“woad” used for dyeing blue); GRASSE Close;

by Farm Animals: HORSE Path; OXEleys; GOOSE Bath; SHEEP Walkes,-Coate; RAM Close; COWpasture Hill; PIDGEON House Close;

by other uses: MIDDEN Hill; LOT Meade (strips in the meadow allocated by lot each year);

by Buildings: SHEEPCOATE Close; PIDGEON HOUSE Close; by Roads and Ways: RidgeWAY; Horse PATH;
by Vegetation: NAShold (“at the ash-tree (?) corner or thicket”); ASHIE Close, WOOD Way; BUSHI Close; RUSH Slad; Lond THORNE; BUR Furlong; BLUE BOTTLE (“cornflower”); Gratten HEDGE; HANGERS; LANDHURST;

by Wild Creatures: SNAYLES Well; (?) HAMMER Acre (Yellow Hammer ?);

by Owners: Thomas Rice; ASTONS Hill; LAWES Ditch; GOLLINS Croft; BURNARDES Meade; HAINES HILL; COLLEDGE Close; ROSES Close; (?) REASE Close; MOLLETS

Glebe Lands: PULPIT Furlong; TITH Hook; Boundaries: Ashendon END; Short and Long MEERE; cf. Homer Balke in Meade Furlong - the “homewards balk”; LANDhurst?; Hammer Acre; Deep Rowle; Harkham Hill; Salters. (“sale ersh” ? or a tenant’s name?). Reade


Also See: 20th Century Field Name Etymology