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been, but Kipperley field was so shrunken that we cannot base 

 any argument upon the Kingston situation. Since the parlia- 

 mentary plans and schedules of only these five townships suggest 

 the survival of three compact, open, arable fields in Hereford- 

 shire, we may now give attention to a marked change which most 

 of such records portray. 



It will be remembered that one of the townships in which three 

 fields were seemingly intact in the sixteenth century was Risbury, 



Sketch of the Enclosure Map of the 

 Risbury Division of Stoke Prior, Herefordshire. 1805. 



Field 



Muetan Field 



/Mear Field 



Map VIII 



a member of Stoke Prior. Fortunately, the enclosure award of 

 Stoke Prior is accompanied by two carefully-drawn plans that 

 locate the arable area which is to be enclosed, indicating the 

 open-field strips and giving the names of the fields.- These plans 

 are far more representative of the condition of Herefordshire 

 common fields at the end of the eighteenth century than are the 

 accounts of the more compact three-field areas already noticed. 

 One of them relates to fields lying in the parish of Humber, the 

 other to fields in the Risbury division of Stoke Prior. The Hum- 



