doubted whether Loveliest Reed Field had acre to offer than ‘Upper Small Gain’ and ‘Lower Small Gain’, both of which went with William Goldsmith’s farm at Hartley Bottom, or the two ‘Starve Acre’ Fields, one at Berries Maple Farm and the other on Mr Dalton’s land nearby.
   Trees, past or present, accounted for ‘Ash Field’, ‘Apple Tree’ and ‘Pear’ Fields, ‘Maple lands’, ‘Walnut Tree Field’ and, in part, for ‘Walnut Tree Hudley Field‘ and ‘Wiltshire Stubbs’. Animals had also played their part. Someone must at some time have counted the horses in Nine Horses Wood, or perhaps is a lost ‘Nine Horses Field’ nearby, there was a ‘Horse Croft’ at Idleigh and there had once, maybe, been young horses is ‘Coltsteadles’ on North Ash Farm. It is unlikely that there was ever a lion in ‘Lion Field’, or even in ‘Lion Wood’, but there may have been an Idleigh bull in

‘Bully Field’. Almost certainly, red leverets had once played in Red Libbets Wood. As for birds, one of the West Yoke farms had ‘The Buzzards’ and another ‘Buzzards Field’ and at Upper Gooses there was a ‘Goose Field’ as well as Goose Wood. At Hodsoll Street’s Cop Hall Farm was a ‘Rook Wood Field’, at Lower Pettings an ‘Owl Yard’ and at Ash Place Farm a ‘Sparrows Croft’, which latter might just possibly have taken its name from Mr Sparrow.
   From physical characteristics or the lie of the land stemmed, in whole or in part, the ‘Hilly’ Fields, ‘Great Highlands’ and ‘Little Highlands’, ‘Great Bloomers Hill’ and Little Bloomers Hill’ and ‘Henley Bank’, as also the ‘Pond’ Fields, including ‘Stean’d Pond’ Fields, both ‘Great’ and ‘Small’. One factor in common was