Glorious, cold, misty morning #today on the Greenway in #OldnallEnd between #BalsallCommon and #BurtonGreen. The trees on the horizon form the boundary between fields that in 1839 were called Middle Close and Far Close, named for their position in relation to a farmstead now long gone.

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Yay, first data for my #OldnallEnd #OnePlaceStudy (pretty bonus #FieldPhoto below!). Phase 1 focuses on the 1839 #TitheApportionment. Here's what I found: 69 dwellings (9 headed by women, 17 owner-occupied, 52 tenanted). V local: 30 householders born in #Berkswell, 28 in #Warwickshire, 3 out of county. V agricultural: 19 farmers, 16 ag labs, 5 shoemakers, 5 labs, 2 carpenters, 1 each of rakemaker, hosier, linen weaver, maltster, baker, shopkeeper #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory #FamilyHistory

It’s been a long week and I had to postpone this week’s look at my #OnePlaceStudy until I’d finished a work deadline today, but now it’s DONE so to celebrate here is a “little croft, called Burnt Close because the cottage thereon has burnt down, at Oldnall End” (as mentioned in a will from 1686 - no trace of the cottage now, at least from here, which is as close as I could get!). #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #Berkswell #OldnallEnd #Warwickshire #Fields #FieldPhoto

It’s been a long week and I had to postpone this week’s look at my #OnePlaceStudy until I’d finished a work deadline today, but now it’s DONE so to celebrate here is a “little croft, called Burnt Close because the cottage thereon has burnt down, at Oldnall End” (as mentioned in a will from 1686 - no trace of the cottage now, at least from here, which is as close as I could get!). #LocalHistory #OnePlaceStudies #Berkswell #OldnallEnd #Warwickshire #Fields #FieldPhoto

Per the 1839 tithe map, this is #OldnallEnd Piece and I am so intrigued to find out if the field or the hamlet got its name first #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory #Warwickshire #FieldPhoto

Per the 1839 tithe map, this is #OldnallEnd Piece and I am so intrigued to find out if the field or the hamlet got its name first #OnePlaceStudy #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory #Warwickshire #FieldPhoto