Category Archives: Enclosures
Enclosures, hedges… and David Cameron
One reason why rural hedges are so important, and symbolic in British history is the enclosures, the process by which open fields and common land were divided into smaller, privately controlled plots of land. Enclosures were made from at least … Continue reading
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The enclosure of Penwith Moors
In the 18th and 19th centuries, a great deal of British land passed from common use to private control, during the Enclosures, in which land was fenced or hedged off. The hedges of this period helped to cement the modern … Continue reading
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