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ENGLISH FIELD SYSTEMS 



Churchway field, Hopyard Piece, Ten Acres, and Pinacres, — 

 while the southwestern group comprised West field, Lower West 

 field, Rotherway held, Moor field, Crow Hill, Bobble Stock, and 

 Sickman's field. Quite apart from the odd pieces, such as Bobble 

 Stock, these subdivisions were numerous for an area of 297 acres. 

 Four areas in one group and five in the other are distinctly called 

 fields, the average size of a field being thus not more than 25 or 



Sketcb of the Enclosure Map of 

 Holiuer. Herefordshire. 1866 



Moor Field 



Fueter'8 Moor, 



Patch Hill 

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Map IX 



30 acres. Enclosure had, to be sure, wasted them, as at Risbury; 

 but they can never have been very large. Either early fields 

 had been much subdivided, or the system was irregular, as it so 

 often showed itself in Jacobean surveys. 



In many of the Herefordshire awards a multiplicity of fields, 

 like that shown in the Holmer plan, is a striking feature. At 

 Harden, a parish of many hamlets, some looo acres were en- 

 closed in 1819. These lay in forty-six fields and patches, several 

 of them being small plocks or crofts. Most of the fields contained 

 from three to forty acres each, though in eight instances the 



