Paper clipping from The John Dobson Collection
April 1900
Last Updated: 12 August 2013
Comment:
In these times all the plots of land had names and were widely known amongst the local rural community. Some field names have survived where the land has passed within succeeding generations of the same family but many of the traditional names have been lost. Some old maps with the field names annotated over the printed sheet do still exist but these are now rare.