In Castor quarrelsome farmers were wise enough to avoid the law courts. Instead, they wrote appealing against their neighbours to their respective landlords, but the landowners were unable to restore harmony. The death of a farmer who had won the highest respect of his neighbours, and who had continually used his great influence to allay ill-feeling and promote harmony, brought on a state of tension that gradually became unbearable; and the appointment by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of a new agent, who could not understand and had no patience with the peculiarities of common-field farming, led to steps being taken for enclosure. The first step necessary was to obtain the agreement of the great majority of the people interested. The agent in question, assisted energetically by the leading farmer in Ailesworth, succeeded in doing this without much difficulty. In 1892, application was made for an order to the Board of Agriculture, whose inspector reported warmly commending the project. The simple statement of the farmers with regard to their farms, _e.g._, “I hold 175 acres in 192 separate parcels,” would convince him that a change was necessary. The figures for holdings are not given by the enclosure award, but a summary of the facts with regard to some of the smaller properties gives the following:-- The glebe consisted of-- A. R. P. 16 scattered strips of land in Wood Field, area 10 1 16 5 ″ ″ ″ Nether Field, ″ 3 1 12 7 ″ ″ ″ Normangate Field, ″ 4 0 2 33 ″ ″ ″ Mill Field, ″ 20 2 28 34 ″ ″ ″ Thorn Field, ″ 24 2 29 50 ″ ″ ″ Milton Field, ″ 37 0 37 18 ″ ″ ″ four meadows, ″ 10 1 20 2 Lammas closes, ″ 7 2 24 making a total of 165 outlying parcels of land, scattered far and wide over a parish of five thousand acres in extent, and yet amounting, with some small closes near the village, only to 118 acres in area. Further-- A. R. P. Proprietor A owned 17 3 19 in 32 parcels ″ B ″ 3 0 16 ″ 6 ″ ″ C ″ 80 1 5 ″ 164 ″ ″ D ″ 9 0 18 ″ 8 ″ ″ E ″ 2 0 2 ″ 5 ″ ″ F ″ 2 3 14 ″ 6 ″ ″ G ″ 1 2 10 ″ 5 ″ ″ H ″ 2 2 3 ″ 9 ″ ″ J ″ 2 1 18 ″ 7 ″ ″ K ″ 166 2 24 ″ 217 ″ ″ L ″ 13 3 37 ″ 30 ″