Abstract
THE PROBLEM addressed in this paper is the proposition that 'classic' medieval open-field systems were laid out, parish by parish, by individual communities, each working independently of its neighbours, between about A.D. 850 and 1150. There is physical and documentary evidence that a large, cohesive field-layout extended across four contiguous parishes on the northern side of the Bourn Brook, West Cambridgeshire, until Parliamentary enclosure. It appears to be a proto-open-field system, probably intensively cultivated, and apparently created in the 8th or 9th centuries A.D. by a centralised authority, perhaps as part of an 'extensive' estate.
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