Walking west towards Longford Hall …. in the summer of 1845

Now I am back with the tithe map which with its accompanying schedule details who owned, and farmed all of the land in the Township of Chorlton-cum-Hardy in the summer of 1845.

Walking west towards Longford Hall, 1845

It is an impressive document which also records how each field was used, along with the size, and shows all the buildings.

Cross check this with the Rate Books and the census returns and you have a fascinating picture of just what the area was like.

So each field and property is numbered, and that number corresponds to an entry in the schedule.

And for no particular reason I have chosen to focus on a stretch of land from Red Gate Farm west towards Longford Hall.

Today it includes what is currently known as Ryebank Fields.

Mrs. White's pasture field, 1845

Back in 1845 most of the land was owned by either the Egerton Estate, or the Lloyd estate and farmed by different tenant farmers. 

Some of whom rented large amounts of land and other much smaller amounts.

The land was given over to a mix of arable, meadow and pasture, and had names like Ney Ley, Brick Brows, Bagley Acre, and Aunt’s Field.

And I have chosen just one field which was number 101.  

It was called Spear Pitt Field, comprised four acres and was meadow land.  

It belonged to the Lloyd estate and was farmed by Mary White who tenure stretched to 77 acres.

Location; Chorlton-cum-Hardy

Picture; section of the Tithe map, 1845, Chorlton-cum-Hardy