Bourne Archive:
BAEM: East Field
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and picture ©R.J.PENHEY 2010.
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Bourne East Field, from the Bourne
Abbots Estate Map.
This is a detail, covering the area of the pre-enclosure
East Field in Bourne Parish, taken from the Bourne Abbots Estate Map of 1825.
The contrast in the
picture here is greatly enhanced to reveal what in the map itself, is often
very faint.
The parish of Bourne had three sets of open
fields; one set each for Bourne, Cawthorpe and Dyke. Those of Bourne were named
from compass points: East, South and West. The East Field is outlined here by a
faint brown line. It lay to the East of the
Mill Drove runs west
to east across it so providing access both from the turnpike road and Meadow
Drove. It joins the turnpike road, now A15, to Meadow Drove, which runs north
and south through the pre-enclosure pasture of Bourne Meadow. Mill Drove has
the appearance of a road laid out as a result of the agricultural Enclosure Act
of 1766 but ridge and
furrow shown by Hayes
and Lane (Fig. 83. p. 139) is compliant with it, so it may be older. The
toll gate was just to the north of the Mill Drove junction with the turnpike,
so people could go from Bourne into the East Field without incurring a toll.
Most of the
landowners’ names can be found in the 1817 Land Tax Assessment.
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