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Essex Field-Names (Part 4): Stapleford Tawney

Barbers Mead
Blaze Meadow
Brick Clamp
Canal
Caves Meadow
Charity Land
Chase, The
Church Field
Clay Hills
Cock Field (12)
Collets Hoppet
Colmans Croft
Cook Field
Cornishes
Crumps Mead
Dale Field
Dove House Mead (13)
Elthorpe Spring
Epping Hoppet
Frith, Upper
Froghall Spring
Gibs Croft
Goose Acre
Hagmoor
Hagmoor Shots
Hither How Field
Hooking Field
Hose, The
How Field
Hundred Acres (14)
Hunters Moor
Lady Croft
Liquorish Field, North and South
Long Bottom
Long Shot
Lowlands (15)
Mayletts and Jacobs
Mill Mead
Night Leaze
North Lands, Great and Little
Parks, Hilly
Perry Field (16)
Pipers, Great and Little
Rains, Lower
Sedgy Marsh
Shailes Moor
Stock Frith
Swains Field
Talbot Inn (nr. Passingford Bridge)
Taney Mead
Tawney Wood
Thistley Field (17)
Thompsons Croft
Tylers Hoppet, Little
Well Field
Whitbreads
Windmill Field (18)

Source Notes:

12 Also occurs at Theydon Mount
13 Also occurs at Theydon Mount
14 This is the nearest approach to a joke that one comes on; it seems to have been thought witty to call a small enclosure ‘Hundred Acres’ or ‘Thousand Acres’. Instances are not confined to Essex.
15 Also occurs at Theydon Mount
16 Also occurs at Stanford Rivers
17 Also occurs at Stanford Rivers
18 Also occurs at Stanford Rivers

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