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The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields

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The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields

Gilbert Slater

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Before enclosure, English villages farmed in open strips by ancient custom. Gilbert Slater maps that vanished world: the Mercian and Wessex village types, the surviving common fields, and the long process that fenced them in. A detailed regional history of how a countryside was remade. Walk the strips before the hedges closed over them.

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29 chapters

  1. 1THE ENGLISH PEASANTRY AND THE ENCLOSURE OF COMMON FIELDS
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5INTRODUCTION
  6. 6I. ENCLOSURE IN GENERAL
  7. 7II. THE MERCIAN TYPE OF VILLAGE COMMUNITY
  8. 8III. THE WESSEX TYPE OF VILLAGE COMMUNITY
  9. 9IV. EXTENT OF EXISTING COMMON FIELDS
  10. 10V. THE ISLE OF AXHOLME
  11. 11VI. SOME RECENT ENCLOSURES
  12. 12VII. AGRICULTURE IN OPEN FIELD PARISHES A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
  13. 13VIII. NORFOLK AGRICULTURE
  14. 14IX. GEO. III. C.81
  15. 15X. ENCLOSURE AND DEPOPULATION
  16. 16XI. ENCLOSURE AND THE POOR
  17. 17XII. THREE ACRES AND A COW
  18. 18XIII. STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF ENCLOSURE BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT

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