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A Downland Parish - Ash by Wrotham in Former Times by W. Frank Proudfoot

A manuscript history of Ash, written in the 1970's but never published (about W. Frank Proudfoot)

Chapter 12 - The Fulljames Survey of 1792  page 166

   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 

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.

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