Wood and field names

[Blackpowder]

Contrymen will be aware that fields and woods have names which sometimes are and some time are not shown on standard ordnance survey sheets. There are the usual field names Cow Field, Steading Field, House Field etc. In a similair vein you have Long Woods, Castle Woods

Church Wood etc. But what are the more unusual field names wich forum members have come across. Two examples from the farm where I was born and brought up in, and this is field names, Archie Mathew, whoever he was or what he had done to leave his name as a place name no ione knew. Or what about Cauldsides what shivering turnip shawer named this north facer. So forum members what have we got throughout the land?

 

Blackpowder

[Zapp]

Not far from me is "Gas Wood", so named because nearly 100,000 gallons of weapons grade Mustard Gas was stored there during WWI and WWII when it served as a shell and bomb filling depot. It has supposedly all been cleared now, but then they said that back in the 80s, only for significant levels to be discovered in the 90s following a site survey.

[bruno22rf]

I live on a road called "DEMORAM"-several hundred years ago a body was found here with no signs of how the man died-the locals put it down to the Devil and the place became known as the Demonic Fields-over the years thgis has become Demoram.Fields with the name "MIDDEN" are the ones to look for-these were where the human waste was spread.Anything withg the word Manor means Farm-some field names hav,nt changed for hundreds of years.

[Fisherman Mike]

Theres a wood near where I was brought up called Pitham Bottom, a road runs through it...A tramp supposedly hung himself there many years ago. Its been the scene of many unexplains accidents including one in the 70,s when the local Doctor supposedly encountered a headless horseman. One of the Estates gamekeepers was found dead in it in the late 70,s and a childhood friend was killed in the 80,s in a freak motorbike accident.....Its a pretty sinister place and we never used to go near it after dark, I probably still wouldnt now.

[100milesaway]

We used to sledge on some quite steep fields known locally in Saddleworth, where i used to live called Dickie Bird Hop, needless to say they have all been built on. from Auntie.

[Popgun]

I used to work my cocker on a local estate and they have a small wood there called Bloody sheard i've no idear why.

[jonevo]

google tithe map names All these field names and woods used to all be known by a certain name,but now they are known by field numbers

 

google it you will be suprised at what names appear on land you have permission on

[death from below]

Not quite on track but I used to work a patch covering the Fish Island industrial area of Bow/Hackney. There is a lock called Bow Locks (where the Big breakfast used to be filmed).

[mattslaptop247]

We have Gallows wood, where the local witch Peg Fife as hanged back in the day.

 

http://www.marketweighton.org/group_home/weighton_history.php

[vole]

Not a field but a long pond at the end of a field I used to go on is called the Dog Gravy .Used to fish it for eels and pulled in a puppy in a sack .Explained alot . Dark and deep .

[hillmouse]

Some of the field names which feature Proper names such as Robinsons Meadow etc. may be linked back to previous owners. On one estate I worked on it was a tradition to name fields on the retirement of a long serving member of the farm staff. Gibsons field after Charlie Gibson for example.

There are some strange field and wood names about. How about "Bannana Clump". Don't ask, no idea why.

We had "Hare Willies Fell", often misnamed in conversation. Phnaar phnaar. Cockplay Farm also raised an eyebrow as did "Fanny's Burn".

Most commercial shoots have a wood called Ephall Corner. A good place to go when a team is looking like exceeding their bag.

[dunganick]

Not far from me is "Gas Wood", so named because nearly 100,000 gallons of weapons grade Mustard Gas was stored there during WWI and WWII when it served as a shell and bomb filling depot. It has supposedly all been cleared now, but then they said that back in the 80s, only for significant levels to be discovered in the 90s following a site survey.

 

This isn't Melchbourne (or some such spelling) is it?

[Zapp]

This isn't Melchbourne (or some such spelling) is it?

 

Yes, thats the place Nick. Do you know it?

[dunganick]

Yes, thats the place Nick. Do you know it?

 

Been there twice on driven days. Shot my first woodcock on the first outing, was the only shot i took all day as i only shot two stands.

 

One of the guns was a friend of my dads (did business together)

[Zapp]

Been there twice on driven days. Shot my first woodcock on the first outing, was the only shot i took all day as i only shot two stands.

 

One of the guns was a friend of my dads (did business together)

 

His surname wasnt Clifton was it?

[dunganick]

His surname wasnt Clifton was it?

 

Meredith

[Zapp]

Ah, not the person I had in mind, but you are indeed thinking of the same place.

[dunganick]

Nice shoot, i shot dismally on my second visit mind. But still enjoyed the location, the story behind the large fenced off areas was an interesting twist too.

[Devon Fox]

We have a drive on a patch called old barstewatds (insert proper spelling) lane - no idea why, we have a scatchy face lane (obvious why) and another called windwhistle and te wind really does whistle through, it's one of those places that the sun never touches and it's the coldest place at anytime of year.

 

We have several castle names, wood and fields and a chapel field with remains still present.

[Scully]

We have Gallows Hil which speaks for itself,better known now as Fair Hill,where the biggest Gypsy annual gathering in Europe takes place every year.

[Floating Chamber]

On my old shoot of forty years ago, some of the surrounding fields were 'Coneyberry,' 'Cricket Field', 'Big Leys', 'Farmyard'

[Cannon]

There's a field on the Black Mountain over here called the Hatchet Field. Reason being it looks like a hatchet. It's steeped in rumour and riddle about numerous murders and suicides, and is often used as an expression exhibition using large bed sheets so everyone can read what it says from a distance

[wickedwickedmotox]

here are some of the names of my dads fields higher bloodfield and lower bloodfield, we have no idea why, lower somersdown higher somersdown george park arcadia coombe park and resivior field named by us for obvibious reasons lots of fields dont have names just these ones never understood the bloodfield ones!

[Conygree]

It's interesting how names evolve. In our village as kids we called one track by an end house 'Yates' after the family that lived there, so for older village people it's 'Yates','Cherry mill' etc but new names have evolved on the large estate I work on, with plenty of old name for woods etc Frenchies bottom, Conygree, New Halvers, Apple pie but for a new shoot drive it was near a mobile phone mast - so it became 'Orange Mast' and another drive after the group of people that lived there FOC, should be called Grove Ash Cottages but is known as 'Squatters'. The thing about these names is that everybody knows where you mean.

[Scully]

Got to thinking,and beyond the Gallows Hill,we have a Slosh Farm,an old coach house called Wearisome(as in weary)Toll Bar cottage,Stank Wood,Flodders and a Doomgate.