Photograph 1The remains of the castle mound at Laxton, 2008
Photograph 2View from the West Field, looking back towards Laxton church, 2008
The West Field remains unenclosed. Although it looks like one big field, it is in fact still divided into wide strips, farmed separately by individual farmers. In earlier centuries the strips would have been much narrower.
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