Excepting our own burgage tenements in Neath. The burgesses were also allocated half-acre agricultural plots in Burmantofts (burgage men's tofts). Such burgage boroughs were called pocket boroughs. Each burgage in a burgh was the same size, though the size varied between burghs. In South Zeal, in Devon, burgage plots were known as "borough acres". It retained its medieval street pattern, but the burgage plots had been subdivided. It occupies one of the original Medieval burgage plots laid out around 1291. Henry Chichele was admitted, in succession to his father, to a burgage in Higham Ferrers. His officials were to lay out burgage plots for traders, artisans, and shopkeepers. It is located along, what would have been medieval burgage plots. The burgage plots were on Boroughgate, Walkergate and Kirkgate. Some have burgage plots at the back, established by de Grey in 1283. As populations grew, "burgage plots" could be split into smaller additional units. In High Burgage is a corner shop and a post office. Forms no longer used include socage and burgage.