White, Graeme J.2013-02-182013-02-181995In T. Scott, & P. Starkey (Eds.), The Middle Ages in the north-west (pp. 15-35). Oxford: Leopard's Head Press, 19950904920313http://hdl.handle.net/10034/269693This book chapter is not available through ChesterRep.This book chapter discusses thirty two vills in the Dee and Gowy valleys (south of Chester) as dispersed settlements where fields took the form of closes held in severalty, rather than unenclosed strips farmed in common as a response to changing demographic and economic pressures.enCheshireopen fieldsvillagesOpen fields and rural settlement in medieval west CheshireBook chapter