They passed along the edge of a huge turnip-field, and came to a stout gate. Beyond it a rutted lane ran between low well-laid hedges towards a distant clump of trees. Pippin stopped. ‘I know these fields and this gate!’ he said. ‘This is Bamfurlong, old Farmer Maggot’s land. That’s his farm away there in the trees.’
- The Fellowship of the Ring (Book 1), Chapter 4
Bamfurlong is the farmstead of Farmer Maggot. Located in the Eastfarthing, it consists of a brick-built house with a thatched roof and two additional side buildings surrounded by a high brick wall.