Passenham

The Forest Map of c.1608 depicts Passenham village lying in the far south-east of the parish next to the River Great Ouse. Approximately 15 buildings are marked clustered around the church of St Guthlac, which are surrounded by four open fields, to the north Little Stow Field with a Windmill, to the north-west Parsonage Field, to the west Kings Hill Field and to the south-west Breach Field. Both the villages of Passenham and Deanshanger possessed their own open field systems from an early date i.e. neither the Crown, nor one or two large landlords owned the entire land areas.

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