Of the many other Ash field names, some are self-explanatory
and others are, in varying degrees, obscure. Examples in either category
may be found in the following final round-up, which is very far from being
exhaustive.
There were an ‘Ale Croft’ and a ‘Tom Croft’ 20
on Mr Budgen’s land near Hodsoll Street, another Ale Croft and a ‘Stoopers
Field’ on Gooses Farm and a ‘Pound Croft’ on Mr Lambard’s land to
the east of Honepot Lane. At Upper Gooses was ‘Crockery Field’ and on
Mrs Brown’s Lower Yard Farm were ‘Old Meadow Field’ and ‘Bibs
lands’. Lower Pettings had ‘Heavers Field’ and at Upper Pettings,
where there was an Argyle Wood’, there was an ‘Argyle Field’; also
to Upper Pettings belonged ‘Upper Hudley Field’, ‘Further Hudley
Field’ and ‘Long Hudley’.
In the northerly reaches of the parish, the Cox farm at West
Yoke had ‘Hemstalls’ and ‘Pep Lands’, North
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Ash Farm ‘Aye Lands’, ‘Clay Mead’ and ‘Brakeham
Field’ and Turner’s Farm ‘Bride Lands’ and ‘Cape Lands’.
At the corner of Pease Hill and Malthouse road was Mr Lambard’s
‘Fillfits Rough Field’ and on Mr Skudder’s land fronting Pease Hill
‘Millbury hockley Field’. Pease Hill Farm had ‘The Empts’.
Ash Place Farm’s many parcels included ‘Hat Field’, ‘The
Valleys’, ‘Fawney Croft and. Shaws’, ‘Goals Croft’, ‘Punch
Croft’, which is not the only one of the names mentioned to have been
called in aid at New Ash Green, and ‘Sea Field’. Sea Field may seem an
unexpected find in land-locked Ash, but it occurred again with ‘Hither
Sea Field’ and ‘Further Sea Field’ on Berries Maple Farm. It is
perhaps trite to remark that fields of waving corn can look very like the
sea. Certainly at Berries Maple they still, on occasion, do so. |