Your name written in mud
COME a little way into the Brook Field,’ entreated the eponymous heroine of Richard Jefferies’s Amaryllis at the Fair. Local boy Amadis did as she asked and ‘here they sat, happier and happier, and deeper and deeper in love every moment’. Had Amaryllis suggested he go with her to ‘Field TL2286’, some of the romance of the occasion would have been lost.
Defra’s insistence on field and County Parish Holding (CPH) numeric notwithstanding, there is both charm and practicality in knowing a
