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12-24-2015, 10:27 AM

Carruthers

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Location: Buckinghamshire UK

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I wonder if that plot was left over from the Middle Ages open field system.
There are still fragments of it to be seen in the UK and Wiki says it was also common throughout western Europe.

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Under the open-field system, each manor or village had two or three large fields, usually several hundred acres each, which were divided into many narrow strips of land.

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