The Landscape of Fareham

Fields with Wavy Boundaries

This field pattern consists of fields whose boundaries are wavy in form but whose overall shape is more regular than that of assarts. In most cases they probably reflect late medieval and post-medieval enclosure, or rationalistaion of earlier field patterns, prior to the parliamentary enclosure movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They are usually larger and often more regular than assarts, and are further distinguished from them by the lack of scattered small woods and copses typical of assart field patterns.