The nineteenth century tithe apportionment  designated a specific land area with a number, thereby linking land ownership to an area on a map. This has made research much easier especially, when as often happened, earlier field names were retained. Ena Carter’s archives have been invaluable in helping track down who owned what and who lived where in 1840.

However there are many field and tenement names which can not be easily pointed to on a map. The names exist in old documents but the challenge is to work out their locations. Neil Langridge’s perusal of Thorney hall manor rental documents have caused some head scratching as we try to match earlier place names onto a modern day map, not made easier with changing boundaries, difficult to read hand writing and spelling variants. This is very much an ongoing project.