town/village names ending feld and wey?

[chrissie12]

I need to know of a town/village which has a name ending "..feld" and "...wey".

[sasserina]

Hatfield, Enfield, there are lots ...In leicester we have a place called Highfields.

[chrissie12]

Thanks but I need "feld" not "field"...

[pigface]

Upwey and Broadwey (Dorset).

Fowey (Cornwall)

[chrissie12]

Great, thanks.  Just stuck on "feld" now.

[Headtime]

I did a search for "*feld" on Multimap and all it came up with was Aberfeldy in Scotland and Feldon in Hertfordsihre.

[THECORBYLOON]

Honresfeld, a village near Rochdale.

[chrissie12]

Thanks.  That now has my seven year old daughters homework sorted.  Much appreciated to all who have helped.

[THECORBYLOON]

chrissie12 it's taken some of the world's greatest brains to find the answers and yir daughter's teacher expects a seven-year old to get them. I've sneeked a wee look at next week's homework and it's "China's economy, will the bubble burst?"

[jno]

corbyloon, you have a point. I spend my days moaning about the low standards of modern education, and then it turns out seven-year-olds are expected to answer questions like this one - how???

[acw]

Maybe the aim was to introduce her to research skills?  Or maybe it's misspelled in the HWK and it really is meant to be FIELD.  Fair point though. 

[chrissie12]

I can't see how the child was supposed to do it, does this mean they expect me to do her homework everyday?  Anyway it proves the old saying " you are never too old to learn" and as long as she is bringing homework like that, I will be constantly learning!

[Octavius]

Well it could be basic history, both terms are anglo saxon in origin:

wey - meaning 'holy object/place of worship'

feld - meaning 'field'

I think its great that children are learning the origin of place names!  Next: Latin.....

[acw]

At least you've shown a really strong interest in your daughter's learning.  THAT will help her to learn as much as any homework.  Maybe THAT was the aim. 

[jno]

acw could be right, but I suspect the result would just be the reverse - most parents throwing up their hands, saying 'How am I supposed to answer that?' and not bothering. Personally I think this would be a decent question for a 10-12 year old ... but seven? Sheesh.

[Grunty]

I think acw is right, and this is a clumsy rendition of field and way.

[apex204]

If this is a mispelling (sic) of "way" and "field", what does that say about the standard of spelling in our Primary School teachers?!?

[noco82]

They are correct spellings, i know because i have just set my class the same homework. It is related to Anglo-Saxon history topic, finding out where place names origniate. The children are meant to use an atlas to look up the answers.

[footie mad]

I had this homework too. Thanks for the answers they were a great help, I was stuck on the same ones!
(Feld is Anglo Saxon for field.)

[debi340]

Hi - my daughter has just had the same homework and stuck on the same names. Thank you .

[04ppatel]

wow.. that was hard... my mums friends kid just had that question.. and after spending a good hour on the net.. i finally found this site and this Q. THANK GOD... thanks for the help...