The Land
The Back Field and a glimpse of the Strange Finger
- Oh some sheep have appeared in the Triangle Field
I love maps so you’ll have to forgive me for posting these. If anyone can shed light on the Strange Finger please do. I can’t imagine why someone would need or want a field that shape but there must have been a purpose. It may be that it connected with a lane at the top but this has long since gone. A mystery for a land historian.
The 10 acres is divided into 3 fields on a south facing slope of a valley:
Back Field – a big field behind the house and barns with a Strange Finger which creeps up the hill
Triangle Field – across the road, a small field with neat hedges of Blackthorn, Hazel and Sycamore, some people call it the Three Cornered Field
Cow Field – a big field across the road with a straggly hedge down the middle
Map showing layout of land
thinkingcowgirl 
Is strange finger the legacy of strip farming and land exchanging on that system? http://www.farmersguardian.com/integrating-historic-strip-farming/2926.article. Love a good map too….
thanks I’ll have a look at that….could be. If it was it would be quite exciting. Just think of all those hands building the hedgebanks… I imagine people from the past toiling away here quite a lot. x
This is exactly what I was going to say.
It was there in 1884, I looked at an old map online. It is a good mystery.
It IS very interesting. I wonder how you could find out?