Hungerfield

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Hungerfield is a tiny hamlet in the parish of Easenhall, in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England. It has about four houses around bridge 35 on the North Oxford Canal. The name probably comes from the clay soil there. Hungerfield isn’t recorded before the 1700s and was likely created during the enclosure of Easenhall by the Skipwith family, around 1760. Before enclosure, the area used the Open-field farming system, and nearby fields still show old ridge-and-furrow patterns. The first written mention of Hungerfield as a place is in an 1829 survey by the Oxford Canal Company, made to map land ownership for a canal project.