Anyone interested in field-names may be interested to attend a day event at
the University of Chichester on Saturday 25th October 2008, entitled
"Placing Names", and organised by the Society for Name Studies in Britain
and Ireland. For further details, see
<http://www.snsbi.org.uk/Chichester.html>
All are welcome.
Jennifer Scherr
Hon Sec, SNSBI
--On 11 October 2008 10:10 +0100 Frank Clement-Lorford
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> Hi. When I read most books (including Hoskins I think) about tithes and
> tithe maps. I notice that not one appears to mention that field names do
> change, or according to my own research they do. Which have been in the
> 16th/17th century. Several parishes where I took the 1834 tithe map
> indicating fields in a parish and tried to marry them up with fields
> mentioned in leases did not work on several occasions. I was trying to
> track back size and ownership of land. What I did find that field names
> moved from one estate to another and that on several occasions a field in
> 1650 would be 2/3 miles away from the same-named field on the tithe-maps.
> I put this down to familiarity with the field name and the then owner, or
> a field name was moved when the property was divided, for what ever
> reason. Does anyone have an opposite view they could share with me, if
> they have, do they know when the practice stopped.
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> Regards
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> Frank
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Head of Library Membership
University of Bristol Information Services
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