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The Field Names of Winteringham

Many of Winteringham’s fields have specific names by which they are known.

The following is a list of the field names from the 1930s. With several fields often merged into one, these names are linked to the OS field numbers to avoid confusion as much as possible!

And of course, names sometimes change over time!

Field name map

To see the names of the fields on a Google Map, please click here.

	In the area of ...

		Rotten Sykes Lane

	OS field ref

		17 45 46 69

	Field Name

	Stable Marsh Benny’s Close Button’s Marsh Boothby’s Close


	Booth Nooking Lane


	38 19 37


	Otter Close Nine Acre Nineteen Acre


	Marsh Lane


	51 52 63 20 56 68 67 64


	Nanny Willey Cow Close Waterside Top Wharp Low Wharp Dickey Barn Drewery Old Brick Fields


	The Church


	116 117 118 110 119 125 121 122 149 148 80 81


	Glebe Knight’s Close Three-Corner Close Meddit Horse Close Nanny Willey’s Parlour Cow Gang (see below) Plank Close Top Hall Close Middle Hall Close Clavin’s Marsh Seeds Close


	Marsh Road


	106 103


	Little Croft Croft


	Low Burgage


	139 98 & 140 96 93 59 57 97


	Whancho Field Bull Piece Judge’s Field Low Grove Little Flats Groves The Flats


	Silver Street


	145 142 144 143


	Town End Tom Thrush First Composition Middle Composition


	Cliff Road


	147 151 204 205 152 & 153 221 223, 224 & 230 240 247 263, 272, 271 278 279 261 260 259 246 244 & 242


	Seeds Field Cliff Long Cliff Grassed Puddingpoke Backside Townend Hood Lane Top Parson’s Cross Wilson Close Earlesgate Top Mere Middle Mere Chapman’s Close Willow Holt Chapman’s Cliff Long Cliff Double-Row Cliff


	Winterton Road


	222 & 232 231 & 248 239 255 256 264 269 & 270 284 207 208 219 & 220 233 238 237 250, 253, 254 265 268 267 283 282


	Stonepit Turnpike Middle Parson’s Cross Barrat Close Fourteen Acre Westfield Allotments Long Mere Old Town End Mill Field Beck Dale Agnustow Parson’s Cross Kettle Bottoms Turnpikes Robinson Close Bratton Close / Mare Hills Swallow / Eastfield Mere Bottom Mere


	Ermine Street


	281 288 266 252 251 236 214 215 212 213


	Cockthorne Tranymere Grass Beck The Beck Willow Tree Close Cottage Field Home Field Pullein’s Allotment John Barrat Top Composition

Winteringham gives the English-speaking world ... 1 “Cowgang” is credited as a word given to the English language by Winteringham. According to Halliwell’s “Contributions to English Lexicography” (1856) it appears in an Inquisition in 1583: “From the south end of Winteringham Cowgang to Winteringham Haven.”

Winteringham gives the English-speaking world ... 2 There is not a single reference to “Agnustow” on the web - apart from thus page! Nor have we been able to find it in any dictionary.

Have you tried the other Winteringham Websites?
Parish Council (includes current news items, photographs, weather forecasts, calendar of events, etc etc) Don Burton World of Nature, Photo Archive (modern photographs of the village), What the Papers have said about Winteringham (since July 2004), High Resolution Historical Photographs, Winteringham Film Archive, Winteringham Football Club




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