Enclosure
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Enclosure or inclosure is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land", enclosing it, and by doing so depriving commoners of their traditional ri
Decaying hedges mark the lines of the straight field boundaries created by the 1768 act of Parliament for the enclosure of Boldron Moor, North Riding, Yorkshire.
View of the Scafell massif from Yewbarrow, Wasdale, Cumbria. In the valley are older enclosures and higher up on the fell-side are the parliamentary enclosures following straight lines regardless of terrain.
A parliamentary enclosure road near Lazonby in Cumbria. The roads were made as straight as possible, and the boundaries much wider than a cart width to reduce the ground damage of driving sheep and cattle.
Memorial stone commemorating those killed in the Newton Rebellion at the former church of St Faith.
The British Agricultural Revolution, or Second Agricultural Revolution, was an unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain arising from increases in the productivity of labour and lan
Enclosure
…recent cottagers and those who were outside of tenanted lands belonging to manors, were granted little or no compensation, and rioted in response. British Agricultural Revolution – Mid-17th to late 19th century revolution centred around agriculture the Diggers – Group of Protestant agrarian socialists in 17th-century England…
1693 illustration of a farm in the Scottish Lowlands
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