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Thanks MollyC

William Senior was a mathematician and surveyor commissioned by William Cavendish at Chatsworth for his lands in his ownership. (William Cavendish became the 1st Earl, not Duke, of Devonshire in 1618). He surveyed from 1600 to 1640 private estates within a dozen English counties totalling over 285000 acres (445 square miles). He produced written surveys, (terriers),  and over 150 maps, the equivalent of a minor Domesday Book for the early 17th century.

Interested to note your comment that the fields shown in strips were largely unenclosed during that period.  Certainly no past evidence of any strip fields today for the village of Great Longstone near Bakewell in Derbyshire.  None apparent on the Longstone Hall Estate Survey of 1770 in Longstone Records.

It's incredible how meticulous William Senior was in recording the acreage, roods and perches of each parcel of land as well as the names of tenants or owners in his terriers.

Message for Goldie61

If you electronically link to my great grandfather's book, Longstone Records published in 1906 by G. T. Wright, you will see references to the Heywards living in Ashford in 1616 on pages 211 and 212.

The link is:-

https://ia804707.us.archive.org/34/items/longstonerecords00wrig/longstonerecords00wrig.pdf

or try in search –

Longstone Records G T Wright California

I have attached the two pages for you.  Good luck.

Regards