Bourne Archive:
BAEM: Bourne West Field
http://boar.org.uk/ghiwxs7BAEM(pic7.htm Latest edit 5 Oct 2010.
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and picture ©R.J.PENHEY 2010.
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Bourne West Field, from the Bourne
Abbots Estate Map of 1825.
Figure 7a. is a plan of the West Field
between Bourne Wood and the castle site. The Bourne Abbots map makes it clear
that the old, open field extended to the parish boundary in the west and this
is corroborated by field list of the Exeter
Estate Book.
In
this Bourne Abbots map, green indicates land of the Bourne Abbots Estate. Very
pale pink indicates land held copyhold
of the Manor of Bourne Abbots, brown is roads and blue, water. Yellow-brown
lines mark boundaries between blocks of property.
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The pale brown boundary
between the North and West fields is fairly clear in Figure 7a. At its
northernmost point, it adjoins Bourne Wood, the eastern edge of which it
follows southwards until it turns sharply eastwards and curves round the
Stray Pastures. Besides the boundary on the map, the latter’s name
indicates that this land was not part of the arable open West Field. It has
the appearance of an assart into the wood, made
at some stage after the Mediæval West Field was
laid out.
Tracing the boundary continues
in the caption of Figure 7b.
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(Photograph date January 2008. The map is in
private ownership)
Follow the
boundary on West Field page
7b.
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