Monument record 7057/1/2 - Abbot's Field and Field House

<1> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, vol.III p.100 (Book). SCH1389.

In 1687 Ellen, widow of William Ford of Fordgreen in Staffordshire, purchased an estate named Hindheath. An earlier document describes the estate as comprising 40 acres of land, 20 of meadow, 20 of pasture and one water mill. This estate is assumed to include Abbeyfields (called Abbot's Field at the time of the Dissolution) and included a house called Field House.

<2> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R 31/07/2013 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

Although the 1817 house (see CHER 7057/1/1) replaced an earlier building, nothing is known of the either the earlier building or if Abbeyfields always hosted the principal building to the estate mentioned in documentary sources. Given the eccesiastical link, it is always possible that Abbeyfields was originally a grange.