The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common FieldsSlater, Gilbert
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The English Peasantry and the Enclosure of Common Fields
Slater, Gilbert
Agriculture -- England; Inclosures; Peasants -- England; Village communities -- Great Britain
Allexton
Aston Flamville
Barwell
Bittesby
Blackfordby
Brooksby
Broughton Astley
Burrow
Burton-by-Prestwould
Cadeby
Carlton
Coston
Cotes
Dadlington
Dalby-in-the-Wolds
Great Dalby
Dishly Grange
Eastwell
Edmundthorpe
Fenny Drayton
Foolesworth
Gaddesby
Garthorpe
Galby
Goadby
Hether
Huncote
Ibstock
Isley Walton
Knossington
Lockington
Loseby
Market Bosworth
Potters Marston
Misterton
Normanton-on-the-Heath
Odstone
Rollestone
Saxby
Snareston
Stapleton
Stretton Magna
Swepston
Thorpe Arnold
Thurnby
Tilton-on-the-Hill
Twycross
Ullesthorpe
Welham
Little Wigston
Witherby
Woodthorpe
Owston
Staunton Harold
Wanlip he describes as enclosed lately.
The following forty he describes as “old enclosure,” or gives
seventeenth-century dates for their enclosure--
Ashby Folville
Great Ashby
Barlston
Buckminster
Beaumont Leys
Burbage
Burton Lazars
Braunston-by-Kirkby
Carleton Curlew
Catthorp
Cossington
Cotterback
Little Dalby
Elmesthorpe
Enderby
Foston
Freathby
Glen Parva
Kirkby Beler
Lodington
Muston
Nailston
Newton Linford
Packington
Peatling Magna
Prestwould
Ragdale
Scraptoft
Shawell
Staunton Wyville
Stoke Golding
Thedingworth
Thorpe Sacheville
Welby
Willoughby Waterless
Wyfordby (or Wiverby)
Wymondham
Pickwell, he says, was enclosed in 1628, Shenton in 1646, and Laughton
in 1665.
Here, again, in interpreting these statements, we are confronted
with the difficulty of determining what antiquity is implied by the
term “old enclosure,” and also by the difficulty of estimating what
proportion of the parishes described merely as “enclosed” belonged to
any particular epoch of enclosure.
On the one hand, we note (1) that one-third of the open field
parishes known to Monk were enclosed without Acts in the following
half-century, (2) that he gives the date of enclosure of fifteen other
parishes for which we have no Acts, which were enclosed in the previous
half-century. It would therefore appear that a very considerable amount
of enclosure was going on, without Acts of Parliament, during the
period in which Parliamentary enclosure was proceeding rapidly.
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