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way has got the name of Knight’s Folly Farm. No one can 
explain the name, or how it got there; there never was an owner 
of the name of Knight, and I am not aware of any special folly 
attaching to the farm, except that the Ordnance Surveyor put the 
name on their maps without any authority. Iam afraid these 
surveyors will have to account for perpetuating a large number 
of mistakes all over the kingdom. They are too ready to accept 
any information from any informant. I mention these as instances 
of names springing up almost of themselves. As an excellent 
instance of corruption I will give you one not from Bath but from 
the neighbouring Parish of Wickwar.* In a survey of 1772 there 
are two fields one called King Poleham’s and the other Wheelers, 
both probably surnames; but in the 1840 Tithe Award they 
appear as the King of Poland’s Ground and the Queen of Poland’s 
Ground. 
But I must draw to a conclusion. I hope I may have shown 
you that even such a commonplace thing as a field-name may be 
of interest, and may help in working out our parochial histories, 
and though my paper has exceeded the usual limit, I can assure 
you that I have had to curtail a great deal which I could have 
added, but I should certainly have wearied you. As it is, I feel 
that I must apologise for the length of my paper ; but I do not 
apologise for the commonplace character of the subject, for it is 
surely well within the work of a Field Club to talk of fields and 
their names. 
P.S.—Since writing this I have received from Lord Moreton a 
long list of field names in the Parishes of Sarsden and Churchill in 
Oxfordshire. It is a very interesting list and proves what I have 
said, that every parish can show its own peculiar names. After 
deducting those of which I have already spoken in Bitton, and 
many which are clearly proper names, there still remain many 
which I should like to add as a postcript, but without note or 
* Inform., J. Harell, Esq. 
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