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Another apparent survival of three fields, only a little less con- 

 vincing than the one at Sutton, was to be seen at Ullingswick 

 as late as 1856, when 290 acres distributed in 488 parcels were 

 enclosed. The land lay at a little distance from the village, sur- 

 rounding it on three sides in three rather large compact areas 

 called Wood field, Broomhill field, and Bebbury field. Between 

 each two was a tongue of enclosures, and all three fields show 

 jagged edges where closes had eaten in. Still, on the surface 

 at least this is a recognizable survival of a three-field township. 



A parliamentary enclosure which, for Herefordshire, was both 

 large and early occurred at WeUington in 1797. We learn the 

 names and areas of the common fields in which the 611 acres of 

 arable lay, but no plan tells us of their shape or location. Con- 

 jecture may none the less be based on the schedule, which runs 

 as follows : — 



Acres Acres 



. Orrington field 77 North field 87^ 



West field 168 Hope field i4of 



Hither Adzor field 57^ Mill furrows 5 



Farther Adzor field 26| Moor Croft 7? 



Thatchley Lands field ... 41 



The important fields here were West, North, and Hope (simple 

 names) while the other fields, Orrington, Adzor, and Thatchley 

 Lands, could easily have adapted themselves to a tripartite 

 arrangement. Nor does the Tarrington schedule of 1799 

 forbid a three-field grouping. Its 378 acres of arable lay, except 

 for five small patches, in seven areas. To be sure, only three of 

 the latter, and these not the largest, are called fields; yet, if 

 " Radlow " be accounted a field and two of the so-called fields 

 be combined, a grouping into three equal areas becomes possible.^ 

 Only one other enclosure schedule hints at three ancient fields, 

 and that rather vaguely. In the Kingston award of 181 2, 197 

 acres are allotted, of which 116 lay in Brooke field, 64 in Chrise 

 field, and 17 in Kipperley field. The last two areas were adjacent, 

 but were somewhat separated from Brooke field. The three were 

 situated relative to the village much as three fields would have 



1 Radlow 113 acres, Lower Field 93, Church Hill 36, Long Croft 17, East Field 

 S5, Mickle Field 25, Willsill 22, five small parcels 17. 



