[email protected] writes: >I stand to be corrected on this, but I remember learning at school that >farmers worked on a 3 field system, i.e. arable (land that is being used >for >food), pasture that is used for grazing, and meadow land which is left >fallow/unused for a year, in order to let it recover. The fields would be >used in rotation. Not a correction, but an out of area observation. I frequently take walks in the Colne Valley (Essex) and some land close to the river seems to be permanant pasture. Other land is used arablely (sorry spelling looks awry) and continues in that state for many years. Some I have seen turned to pasture whilst (after weekkiller has been added) I've seen pasture of several years turned to arable. Probably totally irrelevent to Lancashire. However myGrandfather had, I understand, a totally livestock farm so presumably would have operated on Pasture and Meadow only. Michael