Tithe Map

Just after purchasing the field about a month ago, I started looking up local history and found the Local Council website had an interactive archive map.
It presents two windows for comparing maps of different ages / aerial photos and information and is scaleable for direct comparison.
From a Tithe Map plot 285, my originally larger field was owned by a Mr. Rowe, a modern map shows how a by-pass has left it annexed from the river as an almost triangular plot.
What I hadn't noticed until I started to compare the amount of veteran trees in the hedges, was a lane parallel to the south boundary 'mature' hedgerow.
This lane has long gone (an outline in the ground can just about be seen on the b&w 1970s aerial photo). It explains why there is a random large oak tree outside the hedge line in the neighbour's field to the south west corner.

From just over two weeks ago, I think there might have been an otter visiting - some of the long grass had a track too narrow for someone to have walked through, the ground has been too hard for paw-prints for confirmation, but a splatter like a small cow-pat would suggest an otter with it difficult to think what else.