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Smallholding => Land Management => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on January 03, 2023, 01:23:13 pm
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I have had an inordinate amount of fun over the years naming fields. Of which my favourite will I think always be Sink Pits Bottom.
Although The Combe of the Wailing Swale runs it a close second.
The creative juices didn't always flow, on that same farm we also had North Meadow and Far Meadow...
What are your favourite field names?
And do you have any you'd like some help to (re)name?
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One of our fields has Mrs Womble's old Volkswagen rusting in the far corner.
Despite being a wreck, "Clive" is of immense sentimental value, having been the first car she ever bought (from new, no less), and the only man in her life who has never let her down.
That's right - it's officially the Polo Field ;D .
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Tom's top field, Tom's middle field and Tom's bottom ...... may not be inspiring but were purchased with money from my elderly dad (ex farmer) Tom.
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One of our fields has Mrs Womble's old Volkswagen rusting in the far corner.
I'm surprised at you having a rusting car on the property :eyelashes: :innocent:
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Yeah, we actually have more rusting cars than we have fields ::) . (I thought that was mandatory. It is, right?)
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Yeah, we actually have more rusting cars than we have fields ::) . (I thought that was mandatory. It is, right?)
Nope. That would kill me. :)
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Ooops.
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Yeah, we actually have more rusting cars than we have fields ::) . (I thought that was mandatory. It is, right?)
Are rusting bikes (as in bicycles) any better? But we do have our old car on the farm too... And yes, it is mandatory, even if only to annoy the (ex-townie) neighbours...
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The farm where I grew up had 'Down Dirty Dick' which was over the road and along a bit then down a long lane.
Here we have 'The Back Passage' which is a short lane we made to access various buildings. Another newly created area is 'Soggy Bottom' because it is. Otherwise we just have 'The Spring Field', 'The Far Field', 'The Far Far Field' which, if we can get some flowers to grow, will become 'The Flower meadow'. We also have 'the Old hay Field' and 'the New Hay Field', plus 'The Home Field'. There is also 'The Spinney', The Coppice and The Wildlife Strip'.
The ones I'd love help with are 'Over the Road' and 'The Top Bit Over The Road', plus 'The New Tree bit Over the Road'. We tried names like 'The New Millennium Plantation', 'Beech Walk' etc but nothing has stuck. I think my creative juices started running dry many years ago and have now gone all together ::)
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Yeah, we actually have more rusting cars than we have fields ::) . (I thought that was mandatory. It is, right?)
Nope. That would kill me. :)
That would drive me mad. Left over bits of fence posts or sarking are ok because they will eventually disintegrate or be used as firewood, but anything plastic or metal has to be properly disposed of. I'd be worried about a dog banging into it and getting ripped or rust poisoned >:( >:( >:(
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A field on a farm near me is called Maes yGwaed which translates as Field of Blood !
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Are rusting bikes (as in bicycles) any better? But we do have our old car on the farm too... And yes, it is mandatory, even if only to annoy the (ex-townie) neighbours...
Interesting. I do love a "them and us". ::)
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Nothing exciting here I'm afraid, just East, West and North pastures. The South is the front garden.
There are an awful lot of rusting vehicles in gardens and fields here- some have several in them. presumably collected over several generations. My concern is the possibility of contaminating water courses with anti-freeze, brake fluid and oil.
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The ones I'd love help with are 'Over the Road' and 'The Top Bit Over The Road', plus 'The New Tree bit Over the Road'. We tried names like 'The New Millennium Plantation', 'Beech Walk' etc but nothing has stuck. I think my creative juices started running dry many years ago and have now gone all together ::)
I'm trying to find a pun or puns involving Roost... as in why did the chicken cross the road / rooster / birds roosting in the (new) trees... [member=2128]Womble[/member] you're usually a punster...
Other things that cross roads or are over the road or similar ... X zebra bridge kerb
Any other features or uses (past or present) that could help find fun and memorable names?
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Any other features or uses (past or present) that could help find fun and memorable names?
Ex-BH had no end of fields named after people who"d rented them in the past. Burns' Field, Dobson's Field, Perry's Meadow. I never knew Burns or Dobson, and Ms Perry had married, becoming Mrs Morris... lol. He also continued to refer to the front room in the house as the New Room, by then had been converted over 20 years earlier... Oh, and the Tank Field was so-called as the army stored a tank there during the war!
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The ones I'd love help with are 'Over the Road' and 'The Top Bit Over The Road', plus 'The New Tree bit Over the Road'. We tried names like 'The New Millennium Plantation', 'Beech Walk' etc but nothing has stuck. I think my creative juices started running dry many years ago and have now gone all together ::)
I'm trying to find a pun or puns involving Roost... as in why did the chicken cross the road / rooster / birds roosting in the (new) trees... [member=2128]Womble[/member] you're usually a punster...
Other things that cross roads or are over the road or similar ... X zebra bridge kerb
Any other features or uses (past or present) that could help find fun and memorable names?
Well, the tups live over there and we do sometimes call it 'The Tup Field' but that's as boring as the other names. We could call it 'Dead Deer Field', but I don't really want to be reminded of that. We could name it after the neighbour we bought it from - NO WAY!! Or it could be 'The new Field', but we bought it over 20 years ago. It is also our Isolation Facility on the rare occasions we need it, being completely separate from 'Over here'.
Nah, 'Over The Road' it will have to stay :turkey:
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Well, the tups live over there
It is also our Isolation Facility on the rare occasions we need it
Then it's Love Island, surely! :roflanim:
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A field on a farm near me is called Maes yGwaed which translates as Field of Blood !
I wonder if it has been a poppy field? There's a field between Hungerford and Newbury has more red poppies than I'd ever seen, and made me understand the whole thing about why we use poppies for Remembrance. (It also has multiple pairs of boxing hares in Feb/Mar, so I used to drive that way a lot.)
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Well, the tups live over there
It is also our Isolation Facility on the rare occasions we need it
Then it's Love Island, surely! :roflanim:
Er.....they're all boys together, with one lucky wether. For one month a year the chosen one (or two) comes to visit his ewes, then this side of the road becomes 'Rampant Sex Field'. The other side becomes 'Oh Goodness, I hope the Minister* isn't passing Field' in the weeks leading up to November, as all the remaining boys check the wether hasn't changed sex since they last checked 5 minutes ago.
(* Minister as in Minister of the Church of Scotland and the equivalent of 'More tea Vicar?')
We get a lot of people out for a Sunday Drive along our little road especially in summer and they get a good view of our tups. Perhaps it should be 'Country Pastimes Field'?
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Blue Ball Field then... :roflanim:
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I'm just leaving this here :innocent: .
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Blue Ball Field then... :roflanim:
The Ball Games Field! You've got there in the end Sally 8)
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I feel deeply unimaginative now..
Top Field
Corner Field
Beck Field
Meadow Field
Orchard
And they are all exactly what they are called.
Perhaps we should change the name of the property to Literal Farm.
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Perhaps we should change the name of the property to Literal Farm.
:roflanim:
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Blue Ball Field then... :roflanim:
The Ball Games Field! You've got there in the end Sally 8)
No, The Ball Park ;D (a Park apparently being a grazing field here in Scotland)
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Blue Ball Field then... :roflanim:
The Ball Games Field! You've got there in the end Sally 8)
No, The Ball Park ;D (a Park apparently being a grazing field here in Scotland)
:yippee: Love it! :roflanim:
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I'm envious now, i want our "lads' field" to be "The Ball Park" too! :roflanim: But they time share with the pigs (along with ponies actually - pigs then rest, then sheep - ponies - rest - sheep) - and the fields in question are already called Pigs' Bottom and Middle Pig. Perhaps we could rename the Bull Field, as we haven't had a bull on site since 2017, and we nearly always tup in that field... :thinking:
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That's the problem though, Sally. If a field has a name that's stuck, you can't easily change it. Conversations will always be along the lines of "why don't we move them across to middle piddle?" "Oh, you mean the bull field?".
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That's the problem though, Sally. If a field has a name that's stuck, you can't easily change it. Conversations will always be along the lines of "why don't me move them across to middle piddle?" "Oh, you mean the bull field?".
Yup, and that's why ex-BH still had one field I eventually worked out had two names, Dobson's Field and The Thistle Field. Dobson (who used to rent his one) was long gone afore I ever landed at the farm, the two fields had been knocked into one years earlier, and himself referred to the field by whichever part was uppermost in his mind when he mentioned it! (Took me a long time to fathom that all out! :idea:)
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We have a chunk of pasture on a windy hill which we've divided into varying sized paddocks and given dull names such as Top Field, Bottom Field, Lamb paddock etc.
However, we were told, a year or two after moving here, that our "bit" and the "bit" opposite our house - rented by a neighbour for cattle - were known locally as Little Hope and No Hope. It's never been quite clear which is which though.
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Quite envious of intriguing names for fields.
not very imaginative here, Top Ten Acre', End Field, Well Field, Crofts 1 and 2, 'Front field'. Pot Sink Field (Some day we'll get that pot sink connected to the spring ;D ). 'That field where you fenced it too narrow to plant a hedge' (I'd asked for 2 metres from wall :-( ).
I'll have to have a think about names, need something that sounds historic somehow.
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When the farm was sold we kept the field known as long pasture. About 100m wide and ⅓ mile long. This is now 7 paddocks of varying sizes which were named as we went along. So we have Top Paddock, Top Hay, Middle Field, Bottom Hay, Bottom Top, Bottom Middle and The Ram Paddock.
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Quite envious of intriguing names for fields.
not very imaginative here, Top Ten Acre', End Field, Well Field, Crofts 1 and 2, 'Front field'. Pot Sink Field (Some day we'll get that pot sink connected to the spring ;D ). 'That field where you fenced it too narrow to plant a hedge' (I'd asked for 2 metres from wall :-( ).
I'll have to have a think about names, need something that sounds historic somehow.
No Hedge Field, HedgeNo Field , Hedge!ess ... or to be kinder, ClearView Field...
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Hanging field _ because history says a man hanged himself from a tree , Tongue _ very long and narrow , Snoot _ ? , Swaite fell _ ? Hydro _ because it looks down to what used to be a victorian hydro , Mirrans Barn _ because a woman called Mirran owned the barn and fields around it