Little John Croft (Antrobus)

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Locality
Coordinate 53.322458, -2.54196
Adm. div. Cheshire
Vicinity NW side of Reed Lane, c. 450 m NE of Fogg's Lane, immediately ESE of the golf course in Antrobus
Type Area
Interest Robin Hood name
Status Defunct?
First Record 1844
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(The former?) Little John Croft.
A field here was known as 'Little John Croft' in the mid-19th century / Google Earth Street View.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-03-01. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2022-04-22.

A potato field on the northwest side of Reed Lane, c. 450 metres northeast of Fogg's Lane, immediately east-southeast of the golf course in Antrobus, was known as 'Little John Croft' in the mid-19th century.

The field figures under this name in the 1840 tithe award for the township of Antrobus in the parish of Budworth, with Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., as landowner, William Vernon as occupier, 'Potatoes' for 'State of Cultivation' and an area of 2 acres and 27 perches (8776.62 m2).[1]Extending about 200 metres west-northwest from Reed Lane, the roughly rectangular plot was no more than c. 35 wide at the end near the road and about 50 metres wide at the opposite end. It is indicated in maroon in the adapted map detail included in the image gallery below.

Gazetteers

MS sources

  • 1844 tithe award for the township of Antrobus in the parish of Budworth, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 016, Image 007, #70 (£)
  • accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 016, Sub-Image 001, #70 (£).

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Notes

  1. 1844 tithe award for the township of Antrobus in the parish of Budworth, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 016, Image 007, #70 (£); accompanying map, online at the Genealogist, Piece 05, sub-piece 016, Sub-Image 001, #70 (£).


Image gallery

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