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Survey of English Place-Names

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The Forty Acres

Field in the Parish of Great Casterton

Historical Forms

  • 1876 Burghley 1950 Burghley

Etymology

The Forty Acres 1876, 1950(Mr J. Fieldnotes that this has an area of 41a. 3r. 4p., but that Forty Acres is occasionallyused ironically in Ru and Lei, like Hundred Acres elsewhere, as a name for verysmall pieces of land)