Boarstall Manor, BuckinghamshireIn 1440, Edmund Rede, lord of this estate, had a map made showing his ancestor receiving the title from King Edward I (bottom). Note the manor house, church, and peasants’ cottages along the central road. In the common fields, divided by hedges, peasants cultivated on a three-year rotation cycle: winter wheat, spring oats, a year fallow. We don’t know whether peasants were allowed to hunt the deer shown in the forest. (Buckinghamshire Record Office, Aylesbury)