Local Place Names One of our fields is called the Commage because in olden times it had no owner only, everybodys cattle could graze on it . In those days there was a lot of land lying idle because the rent was so high that people could not pay the Landlord.. Later on my great grand father took the field and it is still in our possession and we always call it the Commonage. We have another field called the quarry field because there is a quarry long side it. We have We have another field called the lawn.carrie