VICTORIAN BURITON Landowners, Farmers and Labourers
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VICTORIAN BURITON Landowners, Farmers and Labourers 1 A FARMING ECONOMY • In 1850, as in 1750, farming was still dominated by the tripartite structure of landlord, tenant farmer and labourer” . (Agrarian History of England & Wales) 2 • Putting Buriton in context 3 • Context for change in 19th Century Buriton • 1832 Reform Act (Petersfield loses an MP) • 1834 Poor Law amendment Act (creation of Union workhouses) • 1836 Commutation of tithes Act (Tithe maps) • 1848 Repeal of the Corn laws • 1849 Repeal of the Navigation Acts (Free Trade) • 1851 Great Exhibition 4 • Sources of information • Tithe maps and awards • Landowners, occupiers, field use & size, tithe paid • 1851 census • Occupation, parish of origin, farming numbers, employment • 1851 Religious census • Attendance, support for all religious organisations • Post office directory -earliest 1855 Kelly Directory 5 EXPLAINING GIS MAPS 6 • Buriton today 7 • Buriton in 1910 8 • Buriton in 1890 9 • Buriton in 1870 - the first OS map 10 • Buriton in 1841 - the tithe map 11 • Buriton tithe map detail: plot names 12 • A3 Petersfield bypass today 13 • A3 Petersfield bypass in 1841 14 • Petersfield heath and pond today 15 • Petersfield Heath and Pond in 1841 16 TITHE MAPS 17 Key Building Mead EAST MEON IN 1852 Arable Rough pasture/vinyard Pasture Down/Waste/Furze/Rough Based on the Tithe Apportionment survey Plantation Common 15 Acres Lime Coppice Wood Hop Fields Stock Little Stock Field 9 Acres Coppice Garden/grounds Road Little 4 Bighams Acres Row Stock Row Coppice Great Stock Field Orchard Stream Little 4 Acres PRIVETT Allotment Pond Bighams Field Part of Great Buffs PARISH Carroty Field © East Meon History Group Great Buffs Part of Down Common Common Coppice Coppice Beech Wood Little Butts The Dean The Dean Great Dean Croft Score Down Little Dean N Croft Common Close Winchester Dean Pond Further Kidneys Hither Kidneys Well Field Redhill Old Down Coppice Lay Well Field Banks Bowers Marlins Wood Eadens Round Coppice & Dean Dean Copyhold Field about Coppice Plantation Furze Direction Plantation Post Field 40 Acres W E Roundabouts 16 Acres Down Top Piece Part of Bottom Field Red Wood Fir Down Stable Mead Starve Great Copyhold Acre Copse Old Dean Field Red Allhouse Field Wood Wood Field Little Barn Field S Front Upper Bordean Hilly Field Sawpit Meadow Mead Farm Middle Down Little Peaked War Hill 11 Acres Field Pinks Down Long Field 10 Acres Upper Peake Mead FROXFIELD 0 500m Farm Great Congregations Wheelers Halfyard Chalk Lower Morey Field Dell Mead 0 500 yds Gread Peaked Field Gravel Pit Field Old Down Row PARISH Field Halfyard Field 10 Acres Field Patrch Croft West War Hill Kingland Coppice War Hill 4 Acres Palmers East Coppice Upper Morey 12 Acres Palmers Heathfield Field Petersfield Lane Old Down Field Plat 17 Acres Dell Field The Hither Down Underwoods Barn Field Dell 13 Acres Old Down Farm Round Grove Shepherds Field Deans & Froxfield Field Patch Hanger Field WEST Croft Tegwell The Grove The Plain Coppice Little Pepper Paddock Bordean Great Hanger Mare Deans 5 Acre Upper Wimble Field Trenley Grove High Field & Mare Close MEON Plantation Pond Mead Mead Hangery Field Bottom Field Home Bordean Froxfield Part ot 19 Acres Trenley Mead Long Mead STEEP Grove Chidwicks PARISH Paddock BORDEAN Mare Close 12 Acres Stable Field Front Meadow Part of PARISH Horse Croft Peppercoomb Lond Field Lower Wimble Field Mare Field Shop Field 2 Dells Mead Upper Mead Mead 10 Acres North Field Tegwell Slatterford Square Trenley Grove Long Femley Grove Mare Coppice Farm Bordean Coppice House Lindsor Bower Coppice Slatterfored The Rookery Sawpit Lindsor Postern Field Field Long Croft & New Field The Park Mead Cold Hill Field Pond Field Fir Coppice Spearings Slattenford Swindons Upper Commonfield Part of Pound Close Long Croft Stoney Croft Slattenford Eight Acres Hazel Field Home Field Gunters & Pitland Dell Rowlands Hill Sheep Walk Row Colemore Field Sheep Walk Step Long Hop Mill Field Lime Kiln Coppice Home Hanger Garden The Moor Burrow Field Clay Pits Part of Field 8 Acres Home Field Harfeys Coppice West Meon Old Orchard Kites Hill Church Rothercombe Great Field Hop Garden Coppice 6 Acres Farm Part of Kites Hill & Chalkpit Field Old Mans Mead Dell & Wood Harpys Charles Townsfield Parsonage Wood West Grove in Old Orchard Waddingtons Mead Long Plat Cavills Tabors Field Garden Bottom Kiln Westbur y Home Field Mare Pond Field 24 Acres Field Home Pasture Mead Church House West Garden Mead Harpys Coppice Pasture North Field R Riplington Berely Field Scaffolds Lime Mead Church Mead i Pie Close v Farm Kilns e Berry Welsbury Field The Park r Smiths Wood Mead Inhams Home Upper Barn Hatchgate Brick Kiln West Croft M Hop Fir Stroud Common e Field Mead Mead Mead o Garden Plantation Hatchgate n Plat Pasture Dell in Great Peppercomb Field Reads Brick Kilns Berely Field Lower Little Ham Field Common Gosscroft Beans Lucerne Beach Wood Kiln Berely Field Lay Field Pasture The Park Part Granary Field Sir Williams Yard Petersfield Cory RIPLINGTON Drayton Field House Bramble Field Field adjoining Hop Garden Well Mead Hill Ploughmans Joy Thorps Cory Garden Garden Suters Beerhouse &c Field 40 Acres Dog Kennell Drayton Mead New Park Great Ham Hop Garden Beans Coppice Rough Mead Great Mead Hanger Pasture Pasture New Croft Up & Down LANGRISH The Part of Berely Piece Little Mustercomb Pesthouse South Brook Mead Marlpits Field Wood Coppice Way Close Pitsfield Row Stars Down Plantation North Field Lord Gages Part of Stanscoomb Mead Granary Field Mustercomb Part of Stroud Common Stars Mead 12 Acres Home Field Rick Stream 7 Acres 12 Acres or Orchard End Barn Field Coppice or Little Great Mustercomb & Shed 20 Acres Berely Wood Field Wood Stancomb & Mill Close Dog Kennel Home Field Mead Mustercomb Upper Field Cottages Barn Meadow Shillingsworth Lower Mead Common Riplington Bottom Field The Park Pasture Chandlers 14 Acres Hanger Homers Field 14 Acres 10 Acres Upper Mead 2 Beckleys Little Mustercomb Row Mead Questers Park Field 16 Acres Upper Longlands 15 Acres Farm Coar Acres Field Bayhours Shoe Eel Pond Field Stancomb Mead Long Piece New Barn Brooks Field The Plain Hullingsworth Mead Coppice 16 Acres Stroud Common Stancoomb Coppice Coppice Hither Mill Mead or Rookham Beckleys Middle Longlands 25 Acres Oars Field Little Burn Rookham Rookham Mead Coppice The Green Hanger & Road Coppice Home Field Mead Water Mead Beckleys Nutsberry Langrish Mead Part of Stroud Part of House Bridge Coppice Stroud Bridge Stancomb Row Beckleys Field Mead Lower Longlands Drayton Paddock Drayton Great Mill Maskham Chalk Dell Field Millhams Hanger Rookery Field Mill & Plantation Mead Upper Little Pidham Stancomb Maskham Furze Chalk North Sheepwalk Col Jacksons Dell Great Burn Hanger Field Mead Hop Garden Orchard Piece Little Mill Stroud Beckleys North Stroud Mead & 5 Acres Mead Mead Shotters Mead Drayton Paddock Mead 19 Acres Millhams Sheepwalk Upper Down Maskham Large Pilham Hop Garden Pasture Copse Little Shilllingworth Holdstocks Lower Horse Part of Nutsberry Mead Holdstocks Oldstocks Oadleys Mead Lower Stroud Mill Platt Drayton Down Water Hogshead Hill or Rookham Bowls Cowdown Bottom Down Fairlease Stroud Common Mead Coppice Mead Mead House Mead Middle & Pomplins 14 Acres Lodge Piece Barnfield Hanger Upper Stroud Bridge Piece Shillingworth Piece Holdstocks Stroud Water Mead Butts Gin Hill & Shepherds Hole Orchard Common Stroud Oadleys Great or Rookham Round Mead Hollow Ash Little Nutsberry Hogshead Hill Rookham Field Field Clarks Mead Mead Henwood Rookham Down Part of Sliders Mead Pasture Six Acres Outer piece Old House Piece Paddock & Shed Oadleys Mead Pasture Woods Drayton Down Orchard Shotters Little Field Field Pasture Sheets Serpents Mead Core Bottom 14 Acres Garson Field Little Three Acres Sheet Great Woods Holdstocks Long Mead Hollow Mead Cowdown Bushes Hogshead Paddock 5 Acres Long Wheat Ricks Homefield & Little Hop Great Nutsberry Rookham Rookham 5 Acres Ash Henwood Chalk Dell Paddock Cuin 8 Acres Garden Sheets Field Box Steddles Wate Down R Park Hill Long Mead i Part of Burrow Bramble Mead Widow Knights v Peaked End Box Steddles Coppice Millards e Three Hill Coppice Croft Bolters Part of Sheets Common Coppice r Jarmans Wheat Ricks Coppice Westend of Acres Hollow Mead Whicham M Crossway Paddock Vicarage Barn Field Paddock Part of Crim & Upper Winnells Whicham Mead e Well Field Part of Ash Mead o House 8 Acres Rookham Field Burrow Hill Middle Down n Nutsberry Mead National Pound Woodgasson Hales School Wheat Ricks Muscombe Paddock Front Church Burrow Hill Upper Barrow Rickyard Paddock Chiscombes 11 Acres 6 Acres RAMSDEAN Coppice Common Meadow Hanger Hill Barn Field Oxdown Temples Mead Paddock Poors Close Great Hales Whicham Bugworths Henwood Backriver Mead Berry Garden North Field Meadow Plot Rookery Frogmore Field Hop Garden Coppice Mead Court Wheeler Farm Caiddells Burnt House Pound Farm Paddock Woodbridge 25 Acres Pound Mead Barn Field Hales Peaked Field Cow Mead Plat Shop Gentlemans Tulips Home Field Pasture Coppice Bugworths Paddock Coppice Ewe Down Frogmore Penny Croft Pound Paddock Pasture & Hop Long Croft & Hop Garden Garden Field Barn Bugworths Marchants Sheer Hilly Mead Field Horseheads Hop Gassen Old Mead 9 Acres Green Way Meadow EAST MEON Mead Mead Grass Greenway Mead Pound Bugworths Garden Piece Barn Stable Field Part of Coppice Paddock Church Greenway Up Great Little Criddell Hovel Mead Kews Mill Mill Frogmore Garden Part of Wheer Wheer Gassen Field Mead Mead Meadow Mead Stable Pill Mead Mead Part of Wetlands West Lands Cartridges Great