Field names WI project

Hi kateK
Can't help
but thought I would bump
As could be an interesting topic

What country was this project carried out in? It is interesting

Ordnance Survey began mapping England in about 1801 and I wonder if field names were included on those?

According to the all knowing Google
There is a book about Old English Fields and their names on Amazon
By a John Field

My friend is aware that this project ran in Scotland and another Gnetter has pm'd me to say that this research project involving the WI was carried out in Devon from 64-79. Would be really interesting to track these records down.

Bet Wales wasn't researched

We had a field behind our house in Devon - I wonder what it was called? It is a field no longer as we all bought strips and extended our gardens.

While researching my family history, I found a document from the beginning of the 19th Century listing all the land in and around Ashover in Derbyshire, for the purpose of assessing it for poor relief rates. Every field was marked on a map and listed with its owner, occupier, name, acreage, rateable value per acre, and the amount due on it. Anyone living in or near Ashover who would like to know the old field names around them can go to Matlock and see it.

Apparently our (then) area was mapped in 1843, there is a tithe map available to purchase.

anniebach

cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk/

annie Maybe one place to see Welsh fieldnames on maps is the tithe maps. They are being transcribed and digitised.
cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk/en/

The same could be true of other areas. Try Googling your area and field names or tithe maps and see what turns up.

Jalima , thank you so much

Crossed posts, Jalima I might have posted before you, had I not tried to explain tithe maps and poor laws. I deleted that and just posted the link.

Thank you Elegran

Don't think Scotland had tithed land???

I don't know, Katek but there seem only to be tithe maps and schedules for England and Wales.

"Scotland and Ireland have a different history: the [Tithe] Acts cited in this research guide did not apply there. "
National Archives

"What are teinds? : An account of the history of tithes in Scotland
by Black, William George, 1857-1932"

Read online
archive.org/details/whatareteindsacc00blaciala

Or download PDF or for Kindle, Epub, Daisy or Abbyy GZ

There are five blank pages in the PDF before the book starts - don't assume there is a problem.

Looks interesting elegran - that's this evening's reading sorted out.