Place record MDO47975 - Hilfield

Hilfield is one of three manors discussed by Katherine Barker and Dennis Seaward in a paper on the Tudor manors of the Blackmoor Vale (Barker and Seaward 1990).

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 123-124 (Monograph). SDO97.

Wilson, J D, 1973, The medieval deer-parks of Dorset XII; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society (Article in serial). SDO14059.

‘HILFIELD. A group of “park” field names north and north-west of Manor Farm led to the inclusion of Hilfield in the list of possible park sites. However it appears probable that these names are of comparatively recent date. Christopher Taylor says of Hilfield: “Elsewhere, however, similar enclosures were made peadefully by agreement between all parties as at Hilfield in 1697-8. Here the whole of the common land of the parish covering some 300 acres was broken up into large sub-rectangular fields which still remain there today.” (Dorset, p. 132) The “park” fields are among these straight-sided enclosures and it therefore is very unlikely that there was a mediaeval park in their vicinity.’

Barker, Katherine, and Seaward, Dennis R, 1990, Boundaries and Landscape in Blackmoor: the Tudor Manors of Holnest, Hilfield and Hermitage. Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 5-22 (Article in serial). SDO20706.

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