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Agricultural heritage. All the land in the local area formed part of the Mortlake Common Field, which had been divided into parcels known as shots. Charles Hailstone in Alleyways of Mortlake and East Sheen explains: “Commonfields, also called open fields from the absence of hedges between individual holdings, were worked by villagers in a common interest, according to local rules and customs, which dealt with the allocation of holdings, which crops to grow and where, field rotation, the fallowing of land, sowing, ploughing, the harvest and other duties to promote good husbandry… these great common fields were divided into smaller ones called furlongs or shorts, and these again into narrow arable strips, or selions lying side by side in the direction best suited for drainage and ploughing.” This road built in 1923 is on the site of Above Street Shot.
