Monument record 5177 - Open Field System, Upton

The date of enclosure of the open fields of Upton is unknown. Bridges, writing in c1720, reported that part of the lordship 'hath been enclosed within these few years' but that the rest was old enclosures.

{1} The date of the enclosure of the common fields of Upton is unknown. Bridges (Bridges 1791 1, 538), writing about 1720, reported that part of the lordship 'hath been enclosed within these few years' but that the rest was old enclosures. It is possible that the earlier enclosure dates from the years following the acquisition of Upton by the Knightley family in 1420.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1985, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p. 401-12 (Series). SNN77383.

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