Whitfurrows was a village or small town that laid in the Eastfarthing, on the East Road through the Shire, approximately midway between Frogmorton (about ten miles to the west) and the Brandywine Bridge (a similar distance to the east). It laid at the western edge of the Bridgefields region of the Eastfarthing.
Whitfurrows appears to have been a centre or staging-post of some kind for the Shirriffs during the War of the Ring.
Other versions of the legendarium
In the first edition of The Lord of the Rings, the name of a place from which one of the special runners came with a "secret message" in the chapter "The Scouring of the Shire" was Bamfurlong. In the second edition of The Lord of the Rings, the name of this place was changed to Whitfurrows, and Bamfurlong was inserted as the name of Farmer Maggot's land, which was unnamed in the first edition.
