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
1802 Birbury and Marton 1,750
″ Saltley and Washwood 300
″ Whatcote
1803 Kinwarton 420
1805 Cherrington
″ Milverton
″ Whichford, Ascott and Sowerton 2,600
″ Hampton in Arden 600
1806 Polesworth and Grendon 450
1807 Norton Lindsey 600
1811 Long Compton 2,300
1812 Grafton
1813 Solihull and Hampton in Arden
1817 Leek, Wootton 1,000
″ Stuiley
1818 Brickenhill, Little Packington and
Diddington
1824 Sutton Coldfield
1825 Nether Whitacre 400
1826 Wolverton 470
1831 Claverdon 60
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10,950
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_Enclosed under the General Enclosure Act, 1845._
Date Date
of of Parish. Area.
Act. Award.
1847 1851 Whitnash 1,090
1856 1860 Coventry 975
1867 1870 Crimscott and Whimpstone
(Whitchurch P.) 1,170
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3,235
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Acres.
Before 1802 116,919
1802–1845 10,950
After 1845 3,235
WESTMORELAND.
Area
Date. Enclosure. enclosed.
1808 Bolton (certain open or common fields
called Broad Ing Bartle
and Star Ings, 22 A., waste 540 A.) 562
1810 Soulby, 90 A. F., 1,300 A. P. 1,390 {1,952}
1811 Kirkby in Kendal, a common open field 105
1819 Barton, 130 A. F., 1,050 A. P. 1,180
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3,237
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WILTSHIRE.
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