This land which has a semi regular organisation is not clearly enough defined to be characterised as 'strip fields' but could well have arisen from the piecemeal reorganisation of blocks of common arable into enclosed land. Most of the local farmsteads date to the 17th century and this may represent the date of this reorganisation. In the medieval period Midhope had its own manorial court (HSY2945) - a frequent function of such institutions being to formally organise the allotment of strips within common field systems. Fragmentary legibility of earlier field boundary evidence likely.