The Hamlet of Hungerfield in the Parish of Easenhall Easenhall in the Borough of Rugby Rugby, Warwickshire in the County of Warwickshire in England.
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Hungerfield is a small collection of four houses roughly located around bridge 35 of the North Oxford Canal Oxford Canal in the Parish of Easenhall. It is believed that the place gets its name from the clay soil it inhabits. Hungerfield consists of Boat Inn Cottage (formally The Boat Inn), Boat Cottage (formally the New Inn), Town Thorns Farm (formally Hungerfield Farm) and The Bungalow (built in the 60's).
Hungerfield Lands as Part of the Newbold Revel Estate
Feniniwebold [1] is mentioned in the Doomsday book, it was changed to Newbold Revell by Sir Hugh Revell in 1235 [2] The next notable inhabitant of Newbold Revel is said to be Sir Thomas Mallory Thomas Malory Author of Morte de Arthur. The estate then passes through a few hands and around 1600 comes to the Skipwith Family who hold it until 1852 when Sir Grey Skipwith Sir George Brydges Skipwith, 3rd Baronet dies and the estate was broken up and sold off.
Creation of the Hamlet
There is no record of Hungerfields existence as a place prior to the enclosures Enclosure of the 1700s, it is believed to have been created as part of the enclosure of Easenhall, which was undertaken by the Skipwith family. There is no record of when this was carried out but evidence from a number of sources suggest sometime around 1760. Prior to this the area had operated the open field system Open field system of which there is much evidence remaining. Many of the surrounding fields have much of the traditional ridge and furrow pattern Ridge and furrow surviving under the current pasture. The first written record of Hungerfield as a place comes from a survey by The Oxford Canal Company Oxford canal in 1829. The company commissioned the survey to show land ownership for the companies canal shortening program.