1803 Sutton next Woking 412
1805 Pyrford and Chertsey
1806 Cheame 1,760
1807 Thorpe 800
1808 Chertsey 2,000
″ Kingston upon Thames and Imworth,
50 A. F. 1,350
1809 Sutton
1812 Brockham and East Bletchworth
″ Beddington with Bandon, 500 A. F. *1,000
″ Windlesham, 156 A. F., 4,000 A. P. 4,156 {12,278}
1814 Egham
1815 East and West Moulsey 700
1818 Long Ditton 400
1821 Great Bookham 700
1827 Peckham
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14,078
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_Enclosed under the General Enclosure Act, 1845._
Date Date
of of Parish. Area.
Act. Award.
1850 1853 Carshalton and Waddington 1,200
1855 1856 Barnes 24
1859 1863 Leatherhead 858
1865 1869 Epsom 414
1902 (Not by Enclosure Act) Ham 300
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2,796
══════
Acres.
Before 1802 5,140
1802–1845 14,078
After 1845 2,796
SUSSEX.
Area
Date. Enclosure. enclosed.
1799 Houghton and South Stoke, 900 A. P. *1,400
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1803 Lancing 730
″ Rustington, all F. 360
1804 Goring 307 {1,397}
″ Tottington, all F. 163
1805 Broadwater 779
1809 Angmering 234
″ Chidham
″ Warningcamp {2,573}
1810 Amberley 2,000
″ Tellescomb, 454 A. F., 236 A. P. 690
1812 Poling, all F. 170
″ West Thorney 960
1813 Eartham 1,500
″ Warminghurst, Ashington, and Chaukton
1818 Westbourne 800
1819 Chidham, Westbourne, and Warblington 320
″ Selsey, 535 A. F., 134 A. P. 689
1821 Bosham and Funtington, 300 A. F.,
530 A. P. 830
″ Tangmere 200
1826 Felpham 400
1830 Kingston near Lewes and Ilford 2,405
1841 Bury
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13,537
══════
_Enclosed under the General Enclosure Act, 1845._
Date Date
of of Parish. Area.
Act. Award.
* 1849 Oving 178
1868 1871 Hunston 78
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248
═══
Acres.
Before 1802 1,400
1802–1845 13,537
After 1845 248
WARWICK.
Area
Date. Enclosure. enclosed.
1726 Bobenhull 1,000
1730 Lillington
″ Welsbourne Hastings
1731 Bishop’s Tachbroke 688
″ Nuneaton and Attleborough, 76 yl. *2,670
1732 Little Kinneton, 46½ yl. *1,617
1733 Barston 400
″ Westbourne Hastings and Newbold Pacy,
40 yl. 1,400
1739 Pailton, all F. 900
1740 Stichall 600
1741 Brinklow 1,700
1742 Aston Cantlow, 116½ yl. 4,067
1744 Wolfamcoat 1,690
1753 Kilmorton, 16¼ yl. *569
1755 Churchover, 32 yl. *1,120
″ Great Harborow, 27 yl. *945
″ Kenilworth 1,100
1756 Clifton upon Dunsmore, 20 yl. *700
″ Radway, 36½ yl. *1,277
″ Sow 1,400
1757 Loxley, 18½ yl. *647
″ Morton Morrell, 35 yl. *1,225 {25,715}
1757 Priors Hardwick, 22 yl. *770
″ Prior’s Marston, 72 yl. 3,800
″ Wolfamcoat, 44 yl. 1,800
1758 Geydon, 42 yl. *1,470
″ Wilncote, 4 F.’s.
1759 Honington, 39 yl. *1,365
″ Willoughby, 36 yl. 1,500
1760 Barford, 49½ yl. *1,733
″ Southam, 50 yl. 2,200
1761 Exhall, 11 yl. *365
″ Pailton, 28¾ yl. *1,008
″ Ryton
1762 Princethorpe, 14½ yl. F. 1,000
1764 Atherstone, 24 yl. 650
″ Chilvers Coton 1,100
1765 Bourton, 20 yl. 1,300
″ Granburrow, 24½ yl. *997
″ Snitterfield, 17¾ yl. *621
1766 Bidford, 23½ yl. *822
″ Haselor, 43 yl. 1,400
″ Ruyton (Bulkington P.), 10 yl. 700
1767 Cubbington, 31 yl. *1,085
″ Wixford and Exhall, 69 yl. *2,415 {53,816}
1768 Lemington Priors 990
1769 Willey, 13 yl. *455
″ Bedworth, 16½ yl. 500
1770 Aulcester, 185 A. F., 450 A. P. 635
″ Bulkington 1,600
1771 Alveston, 56¾ yl. *2,091
″ Butlers Marston, 32½ yl. *1,137
″ Knightcot and Northend, 32¾ yl. *1,147
″ Monk’s Kirby, 18½ yl. *647
″ Polesworth, 24 yl. 840
″ Stretton on the Foss,45 yl. F.,
200 A. P. *1,550
1772 Little Kington, Combrooke and
Brookhampton, 19½ yl. *682
″ St. Nicholas 1,650
″ Shilton, 15⅝ yl. *547
1773 Rugby, 42 yl. 1,500
1774 Foleshill
″ Halford, 34 yl. *1,190
″ Stratford upon Avon, 50 yl. 1,600
1775 Long Itchington and Bascote, 87 yl. 2,000
″ Lea Marston and Dunton 770
″ Wootton Wawen 1,900
1776 Barton and Martcleeve, 30 yl. *1,050
″ Warmington, one F., 46 yl. 1,200
1777 Weston under Wetheley
1778 Fenny Compton 2,200
″ Napton upon the Hill, 96 yl. 3,000
″ Shuckburgh Fields, 26 yl. 880
1779 Aven Dassett 1,200
″ Brinton and Drayton, 59 yl. 1,700
″ Coleshill, 900 A. F., 1,000 A. P. 1,900
″ Harbury, 120 yl. 3,600
1781 Ilmington, 52 yl. *1,820
1783 Burton Hastings 600
1784 Lower Brailes, 3,000 A. F., etc. *3,500
1785 Meriden, 103 A. F., 286 A. P. 389
1786 Shottery,38¾ yl. 1,600
1791 Stockton 1,320
1793 Shottiswell, 51 yl. 1,200
1794 Lower Pillarton, 57½ yl. *1,802 {106,208}
1795 Upper Eatington and Fullready, 72 yl. *2,520
″ Newton Regis and Clifton Campsville 600
″ Ratley 900
1796 Tysoe, 131 yl. 3,000
1797 Oxhill, 42 yl. *1,470
1799 Sherborne 1,050
1801 Aston, 171 A. F. & M., 1,000 A. P. 1,171
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116,919
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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
══════
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
══════
WILTSHIRE.
Area
Date. Enclosure. enclosed.
1726 Compton Bassett, 1 F.
1732 Staunton 800
1741 Sherston Magna, all F. 1,000
1748 Badbury, 2 F.’s.
1749 Broad Blumsden *700
1766 Heddington
1767 Ashen Keynes, 70 A. F., 176 A. M.,
490 A. P. 736
1770 Endford 1,010
1772 Kemble and Pool 1,500
1774 Milton
″ Titcombe, 450 A. F., 395 A. P. 845
1775 Southcott, Kepnell Down, Workdown
and Pewsey
1776 Liddington and Medbourn, 639 A. F.,
427 A. P. 1,066
1777 Ashton Keynes
″ Earl Stoke 1,737
″ Market Lavington
1778 Ramsbury, Whitton, Eastridge and Baydon
″ Coates
″ Highworth
″ Ogbourn St. Andrews
″ Patney
1779 Chisledon, 1,230 A. F., 12 A. P. 1,242
″ Milston and Brigmerston
″ Mildenhall *800
″ Wanborough
1780 Charlton
″ Warminster and Corsley 4,000
1781 Chicklade
1782 Kingston Deverill 2,500 {17,936}
″ Stanton St. Quintin
1783 Heytesbury 5,700
″ Netherampton, Odstock, etc.
1785 Colerne Down, 1,305 A. F., 238 P. 1,543
″ Foffint, Swallow Clift, Ebesborne Wake,
Broadchalk, Bowerchalk, Alvedeston,
Bishopston and Fifield
″ Berwick St. John
1788 Netherhaven 3,300
1789 Berwick St. James and Fisherton Anger 1,650
″ Urchfont and Beechingstoke
1790 Great and Little Bedwin, Preshute
″ Deverill, Longbridge, Hussey and
Monkton Deverill
1792 Avebury
″ Knooke
″ Ogbourne St. George
1793 Durnford
″ Keevil, Idmaston, Fittleton and Chisenbury
″ Roundway, Bedbow, Chiltoe and
Bishop’s Cannings
1795 Poulton
″ Stratton St. Margaret
″ Winterborne Earls and Allington
″ Wroughton
1796 Wroughton and Uffcot {30,129}
1797 Allcannings and Allington
″ Great and Little Chiverill
″ Easterton
1798 Shrewton
″ Sutton Veny
″ Upton and Milton 820
1799 Oare
″ Purton
″ Stratford under the Castle and Milford
1800 Cherton
″ Shalbourne
1801 Charlton
″ Manningford Bruce
″ Wilsford
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30,949
══════
1802 Coombe Bisset
″ West Grinstead and White Parish
″ Uphaven 3,350
″ Wilsford 800
″ Westbury, 3,900 A. F., 1,200 A. P. 5,100
1803 Upton Scudamore
1805 Aldbourn
″ Exford, Fifield, Coombe, Longstreet
and East Chisenbury
″ Norton Bavant
″ Somerford Keynes 500
1806 Great Somerford, 900 A. F., 48 P. 948
1807 Mere 5,000
1808 Bishopstrow and Warminster
″ Codford St. Peter 600
1809 Bishopston
″ Chilton Foliat 400
″ West Kington 950
″ Orcheston St. George and Elston,
400 A. F., 130 A. P. 530
″ Stockton 1,500
″ Barford St. Martin, South Newton
and Baverstock 2,425 {22,103}
1810 Pitton and Farley 1,500
″ Winterbourn, Stoke, and Stapleford
1811 Bidderstone and Slaughterford 293
″ Tileshead
1812 Martin 350
″ Nettleton 981
1813 Calne, Calstone, Wellington and Blackland
″ Steeple Ashton
″ Winterbourne Moncton 955
1814 Codford St. Peter
″ Broadchalk and Chilmark 3,577
″ Cricklade
″ Chirton
″ Exford
″ Overton
″ Sutton Mandeville, 375 A. F., 170 A. P. 545
1815 Bishop’s Cannings
″ Chitterne 5,784
″ Upton Lovell 1,500
1816 Crudwell
″ Downton and Britford
″ Everley
″ Roade and Ashton 2,300
1818 Berwick St. Leonards 1,100
″ Damerham South
″ Froxfield and Milton
″ Laverstock 1,211
1819 Durrington and Figheldeane
″ Malmesbury (St. Paul P.)
″ Rodborne Cheney
1820 Cherhill, Calne, Calstone, Wellington
and Compton Bassett
1821 Broad Hinton and Cliffe Pypard *350
1822 Dinton
1825 Wilton, Burcomb, Netherhampton, and
Fugglestone
1827 Ham
1828 Boyton (with old enclosures) 2,300
1833 Steeple Langford 1,000
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45,849
══════
_Enclosed under the General Enclosure Act, 1845._
Date Date
of of Parish. Area.
Act. Award.
1848 1851 Winterborne Dauntsey 440
* 1853 Maddington 862
1852 ″ Winterborne Gunner 551
″ 1855 Maddington (Homanton Fields
and Tenantry Down) 554 {2,407}
1863 1866 Steeple Langford 983
1865 1867 Donhead St. Mary 535
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3,925
═════
Acres.
Before 1802 30,949
1802–1845 45,849
After 1845 3,925
WORCESTER.
Area
Date. Enclosure. enclosed.
1733 Aston Magna
1736 Alderminster, 1 great C. F., 2 C. pastures,
several meadows
1762 Holy Cross in Pershore 950
1763 Pirton
1765 Bretferton
″ Emload, 28 yl. 980
″ Linchwick and Norton
1771 Broadway, 90 yl. *3,150
″ Feckenham 220
″ Hill Croome
″ Naunton Beauchamp, 13½ yl. *472
1772 Blockley 2,300
″ Throckmorton 1,600
″ Nafford and Birlingham *1,000
1774 Bricklehampton, 34 yl. *1,190
″ Defford, 600 A. F. 900
″ Kidderminster 1,000
″ Upton Snodsbury, 800 A. F. *1,000
1775 Bengworth, 39 yl. *1,365
″ Cleeve Prior, 27 yl. *945
″ Cutsden 800
″ Pinvin, 14½ yl. *507
″ Wolverley 1,500
1776 Charlton, 53¼ yl. 1,864
″ Great and Little Hampton, 46 yl. *1,610
″ Leigh 20
1778 Rouslench 1,300
1779 Cropthorne, 62 yl. *1,860 {26,533}
1779 Himbleton 2,000
″ Grafton Flyford 864
1781 Kington 1,000
1782 Church Bench, 20 yl. *700
1786 Harvington *1,800
1788 Fladbury 1,700
1790 Dormstone
1795 Bishampton, 67 yl. *2,345
″ Chattisley
″ Hanley Castle
1801 Ripple
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36,942
══════
1802 Abbotts Morton 700
″ Broughton 446
1803 Little Cemberton
1805 Rushock
1806 Crowle
″ Wick juxta Pershore with Wick Burnel
and West Waryn
1807 Queenhill
″ Broughton Hachett
″ Aldington 550
1808 Bredon
1809 Iccomb
1810 Eckington
″ Pensham in Pershore
″ Sedgeberrow
″ Tibberton
1811 Churchill {1,696}
1811 North, South, and Middle Middleton
″ Overbury
″ Stoke Talmage 420
1812 Badsey
″ Holdfast
″ Shipton upon Stower
1813 Flyford Flavell
″ North Piddle 800
1814 Bredon
″ Inkberrow 2,200
″ Strensham, 196 A. P. *300
″ Ombersley
1818 Great Cemberton
1819 Alvechurch 450
1825 Whiteladies Aston
1832 Fladbury
1833 Yardley 200
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6,066
══════
_Enclosed under the General Enclosure Act, 1845._
Date Date
of of Parish. Area.
Act. Award.
1847 1850 Newbold on Stour 957
* 1852 Welland 55
1854 Norton juxta Kempsey (East field) 70
1855 1860 Berrow 300
1856 1863 Upton on Severn and Ripple 880
1861 1865 Armscote (Tredington P.) 954
1864 1868 Blackwell (Tredington P.) 793
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4,009
══════
Acres.
Before 1802 36,942
1802–1845 6,066
After 1845 4,009
YORKSHIRE, WEST RIDING.
Area
Date. Enclosure. enclosed.
1729 Thurnscoe 500
1757 Bishopthorpe, 200 A. F., 50 A. M.,
400 A. P. 650
1759 Bolton upon Dearne 1,000
1760 Adwicke in the Street 1,000
″ Calton
1762 Rotherham, 750 A. M., 220 A. P. *1,720
1765 Kirkhammerton, 400 A. F. *600
″ Kimberworth (Rotherham parish) 105
″ Wadworth 2,000
1766 Marston, 950 A. F., 750 A. P. 1,700
1767 North Auston and Todwick 1,100
″ Adlingfleet, Fockerby and Haldenby,
450 A. F., 700 P. 1,150
1768 Hook 1,000
1769 Laughton en Le Morthen, 1,100 A. F.,
360 A. P. 1,460
″ Sutton, 63 oxgangs 700 {14,685}
1770 Sherburn, Lennerton, Burkstone Ash,
Church Fenton, Little Fenton and
Biggin 3,013
″ Great Useburne, 480 A. F., 390 A. P. 870
1772 Ackworth
″ Clareton with Coneystrop and
Allerton with Flaxby 480
″ Follifoot, 165 A. F., 1,100 A. P. 1,265
″ Snaith and Kellington, 1650 A. F.,
922 A. P. 2,572
1773 Armthorpe
″ Arkendale, 377 A. F., 250 A. P. 627
″ Drax, all F. 150
″ Snaith and Cowick 1,160
″ Skipton and Kildwick 2,329
1774 Acombe and Holgate 2,000
″ Rawmarsh, 450 A. F., 800 A. P. 1,250 {30,401}
1775 Rigton (Kirkby Overblow P.)
2,000 A. F., 30 A. M. 2,030
1776 Cawood and Wistow 2,000
1777 Barnsley, 280 A. F., 500 A. P. 780
″ Cantley, Brampton, Bassacar and
High Ellers 2,700
″ Monkbretton, 70 A. F., 300 A. P. 370
″ Thornton, 844 A. F., 307 A. P. 1,151
″ Thorner, 370 A. F., 500 A. P. 870
1778 Dinnington, 610 A. F., 203 A. P. 813
1780 Kighley, 80 A. F., 5,000 A. P. 5,080
″ Moseley and Kirk Bramwith, 220 A. F.,
730 A. P. 950
1783 North Deighton 546
1784 Hextrope with Balby and Long Sandall 1,600
1786 Moor Monkton, 390 A. F., 690 A. P. 1,080
″ Methley, 500 A. F., 300 A. P. 800
″ Little Smeaton and Stubbs Walden,
440 A. F., 718 P. 1,158
1787 Spofforth 500
″ Cracoe, 77 A. F., 595 A. P. 662
1788 Featherstone, 230 A. F., 450 A. P. 680
″ Knapton, 5 F.’s 230
1789 Thorpe, 26 A. F., 700 A. P. 726
1790 Burton Leonard 273
1791 Sheffield, M. I. 30 A., 6,000 A. P. 6,030
″ Tadcaster
1792 Monk Fryston 650
″ Tockwith 900
1793 Brotherton, 286 A. P. 300
″ South Milford and Lumby 1,370
″ Jakefield, Stanley, Wrenthorpe,
Alvesthorpe and Thorns 2,300 {66,950}
1794 Hoyland
″ Rufforth 770
1795 Checkheaton 210
1796 Berwick in Elmet 2,500
″ Hambleton
″ Kimberworth, 220 A. F., 250 A. P. 470
″ Mirfield, 60 A. F., 500 A. P. 560
1797 Bolton Percy 1,300
″ Dalton, 300 A. F., 150 A. P. 450
″ Hillam
″ Pontefract
1798 Ulley, 220 A. F., 100 A. P. 320
1799 Brayton, Thorpe Willoughby, Burton
and Gateforth
″ Hirst Courtney
″ Long Preston, 15 F.’s, 150 A., 400 A. P. 550
″ Sandall Magna, Walton and Crigglestone 759
″ Kirkheaton 400
1800 Carlton and Camblesforth
″ Denby with Clayton West, M. I.
″ Kearley cum Netherby
″ Martin with Graffton 400
″ Womersley
″ High and Low Egbrough, Sherwood,
Hatgreen and Tranmere 500
1801 Staveley
″ Skellow 600
″ Little Useburn
″ Whixley
″ Little Weeton, 1,200 A. F., 300 A. P. 1,500
″ Kettlewell and Conistree,
150 A. F. & M., 4,000 A. P. 4,150
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82,389
══════
1802 Crofton 473
″ Hoyland Swaine
1803 Barmby upon Dunn, 600 A. F., 604 A. P. 1,204 {1,677}
″ Hemsworth 800
″ Clifford, 300 A. F., 460 A. P. 760
″ Halifax (Elland cum Greetland)
116 A. F., 600 A. P. 716
″ Kippax 890
″ Shadwell, 80 A. F., 580 A. P. 660
1804 Normanton and Woodhouse, 330 A. F.,
260 A. P. 590
1805 Thresfield and Skirethorns, and Burnsal 1,690
1806 Kirk Sandall, 100 A. F., 95 A. P. 195
″ Skelton
1807 Halifax 1,900
″ Bishop Monckton, 670 A. F., 150 A. M.,
300 A. P. 1,120
″ South Kirby and South Elmsall 600
″ Ossett (Dewsbury), 230 A. F., 350 A. P. 580
″ Low Dunsforth 630
″ Bramham, 680 A. F., 650 A. P. 1,330
1808 Aldbrough, 580 A. F., 396 A. M. & P. 976
″ Kirk Smeaton 900
1809 Altofts, 290 A. F., 470 A. P. 760
″ Cudworth, 54 A. F. and M. I. 190 A. P. 244
″ Horbury, 260 A. F., 100 A. P. 360
″ Purston Jackling, 100 A. F., 70 A. P. 170
″ Rothwell with Royds and Oulton with
Woodlesford 450
″ Cadeby, 500 A. F. & M., 180 A. P. 680
1810 Badsworth, M. I.
″ Garforth, 520 A. F., 280 A. P. 800
″ Gowthorpe (with old inclosures) 500
″ Thorp Audlin 540
″ Wath upon Dearne, M. I. {21,518}
1810 Rossington, 1,313 A. F., 1,070 A. P. 1,383
1811 Askham Bryan 660
″ Hatfield, Thorne and Fishlake (N.R.) 1,755
″ Langside, 30 A. F., 4,000 A. waste 4,030
″ Ecclesfield (very little F.) 14,000
1812 Darrington
1813 Fairburn 820
″ Askham Richard 220
1814 Collingham, 200 A. F., 230 A. P. 430
″ Wath upon Dearne and Rotherham,
180 A. F., 80 A. P. 260
″ Campsall, Norton and Askern 2,860
″ Frickley cum Clayton 440
″ Wickersley, 340 A. F., 200 A. P. 540
1815 Brodsworth
″ Brampton and Swinton 1,370
″ Burnsal, 9 A. F., 6,330 A. P. 6,339
1816 Arncliffe and Hawkeswick,
80 A. F. & M., 1,800 A. P. 1,880
″ Arncliffe and Kettlewell 3,000
″ Thorpe Arch and Walton
1817 Monkfryston 290
1818 Snaith 1,000
1819 Barnbrough, 800 A. F., 273 A. P. 1,073
″ Peniston, 50 A. F. & M. I., 370 A. P. 420
1827 Arksey 1,800
1828 Kirburton and Almonbury, 300 A. F.,
18,000 A. P. 18,300
″ Knaresborough and Farnham, 78 A. F.,
466 A. P. 544
″ Moor Monkton 600
″ Whitgift 1,000
1831 Ferry Fryston 830
1835 Ulleskelf 711
1837 Rothwell, 300 A. F., 80 A. P. 380
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88,453
══════
_Enclosed under the General Enclosure Act, 1845._
Date Date
of of Parish. Area.
Act. Award.
* 1849 Clapham 592
1855 1858 Conisbrough 592
1854 ″ Sutton (Campsall P.) 553 {1,737}
1859 1861 Mexborough 365
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2,102
══════
Acres.
Before 1802 82,389
1802–1845 88,453
After 1845 2,102
YORKSHIRE, EAST RIDING.
Area
Date. Enclosure. enclosed.
1731 Catwicke, 2 C. F.’s and open
pastures, 88 oxgangs *1,760
1740 Bewholm, 2 fields, etc. *1,600
1741 Great and Little Driffield, 190 oxgangs *3,800
1746 Kelfield, 400 A. F. *600
1755 Nunburnholme
″ Stillingfleet, 40 oxgangs *800
1757 Fulford, 330 A. F., 450 A. P. 780
″ Pocklington, 6 F.’s M. and P.
1758 Ottringham *2,400
″ Skirpenbeck, 99 oxgangs *1,980
1761 Burton Pidsea (Holderness) 1,800
1762 Sproatley (Holderness) 119 oxgangs *2,380
″ Dringhoe, Upton and Brough
(Holderness), 71 oxgangs 1,420
1763 Marfleet (Holderness), 24 oxgangs *480
″ Sutton (Holderness), 740 A. F.,
3,400 A. P. 4,140
1764 Aldborough (Holderness), 80½ oxgangs *1,610
″ North Cave 1,400
″ Sudcoates (Drypool), 94 nobles, 1⅙
gates, 1 foot F.
″ Skipsea, 88 oxgangs *1,760
″ Skeffling (Holderness) 1,440
1765 Benton (Bempton next Flamborough),
80 oxgangs *1,600
″ Brantingham and Thorpe, 900 A. F.,
300 A. P. 1,200 {32,950}
1765 Everingham, 740 A. F., 850 A. M. and P. 1,590
″ Ellerker, 75 oxgangs 1,800
″ Flamborough 3,000
″ Ulrome (or Ourram), (Holderness) 1,200
1766 Bessingby 1,080
″ Beeford 3,000
″ Brigham (Foston P.), 48½ oxgangs *730
″ Cottingham 3,000
″ Naburn, 350 A. F., 349 A. P. 699
″ Pattrington (Holderness) 2,500
1767 South Burton (Burton Agnes) 2,800
″ Huggate, 131 oxgangs *2,620
1768 Bridlington 2,500
″ Burton Fleming, 168 oxgangs 3,000
″ Hotham, 120 A. F., 1,500 A. P. 2,700
″ Welwich in Holderness
″ Willington 2,300
1769 Atterwick in Holderness 1,200
″ Aclome 1,060
″ Bishop Wilton 3,800
″ Elvington 800
″ Hutton Cranswick 3,000
″ Lelley in Holderness, 22¾ oxgangs 800
″ Nafferton and Wansford, 3,000 A. F.,
1,200 A. P. 4,200
″ Poppleton (W. R.) and Scagglethorpe
(E. R.), 920 A. F., 900 A. P. 1,820
″ Sancton, 1,200 A. F., 80 A. M., 330 A. P. 1,610 {85,759}
1769 Thwing 4,000
″ Wheldrake, 500 A. F., 180 A. M.,
1,500 A. P. 2,180
″ Youlthorpe 681
1770 Great Cowden (Holderness), 54½ oxgangs 1,100
″ Easington (Holderness) 1,300
″ West Heslerton and Yeddingham, 80 oxgangs 1,600
″ East Heslerton 1,200
″ East Newton (Holderness) 600
1771 Butterwick, 2 F.’s
″ Kilham on the Wolds 7,000
″ Lockington and Ayde, 1,800 A. F.,
250 A. P. 2,050
″ Lisset, 400 A. F., 600 A. P. 1,000
″ Melton 1,000
″ Long Reston and Arnold 1,600
1772 Sigglesthorne (Holderness), 65½ oxgangs 1,000
″ Welton 1,500
″ Would Newton 2,000
1773 East Cottonwith, 400 A. F., 560 A. F. 960
″ Everthorpe, 42 oxgangs 500
″ Harpham, 1,400 A. F., 600 A. P. 2,000
″ Holme upon Spalding Moor,
1,472 A. F., 285 A. M. 7,000
″ Market Weighton, 4,200 A. F., 2,500 A. M. 6,700
″ Preston in Holderness, 129 oxgangs 4,500
″ Sheckling cum Burstwick 850
1774 Bainton 2,700
″ Garton 4,050
″ Rudstone 4,000
1775 Goodmanham, 3,000 A. F., 100 A. P. 3,100
1776 Bilton 770
″ Foston 800
″ Sutton upon Derwent 708
1777 Boynton 2,000
″ Bugthorpe, 640 A. F., 310 A. P. 950
″ Barmby upon the Moor 2,800
″ North and South Newbald 6,000
″ Tunstall (Holderness) 800
″ Melbourne and Storthwaite, 300 A. F.,
300 M., 1,800 P. 2,400
1778 North Dalton 1,700
1780 Thornton, 800 A. F. 1,000
1783 Roos in Holderness 1,521
1785 South Cave 2,500
″ Kilnwick, 86 oxgangs, 650 A. F.,
250 A. P. 900
1788 Filey 620
1789 Coniston in Holderness 500
1792 North Grimston, 75 oxgangs 660
1793 Hollym and Withernsee 1,800
″ Speeton 1,800
″ Skidby 600
″ Southam in Kirkburn 1,200
1794 Elloughton, Brough and Walby 2,600
″ Lund 2,300
″ Tibthorpe 3,000
″ Warter 7,500
″ Walkington 3,000
1795 Holme upon the Wolds 1,450
1796 West Ella, Kirk Ella, and Ellerby 1,600
1797 Settrington 1,100
1800 Holmpton and Hollym cum Withernsea 900
″ Hunmanby and Fordon
1801 North Frodingham 2,500
″ Hornsea 2,500
″ Langtoft upon the Wolds 3,200
″ Molscroft 700
″ Ruston Parva 900
″ Weaverthorp 8,300
″ Willerby 1,500
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1802 Ellerton (Ellerton Priory) 1,040
″ Folkton and East and West Flotmanby 1,800
″ Keyningham (Holderness) 1,350
″ Withernwick 1,500
″ Sewerby and Marten 2,000
1803 Gaxton, Potter Brompton and Binnington 3,800
″ Middleton, 2,000 A. F., 1,800 A. P. 3,800
″ Wetwang and Fimber 2,820 {18,110}
1805 Ryhill and Camerton 1,300
″ Huttons Ambo 2,500
1806 Elsternwick 875
″ Owthorn 650
1809 North Duffield
1810 West Cottingwith and Thorganby
″ Fridaythorpe 2,000
1811 Paghill 402
″ Righton 1,600
″ Osgodby 500
1813 Eastrington
1814 Hayton, 1,150 A. F., 450 A. P. 1,600
1816 Londesborough
1818 Etton, 2,000 A. F., 600 A. M. and P. 2,600
1819 Barmston, 160 A. F., 130 A. P. 290
1820 Hemingbrough (South Duffield township)
1822 South Dalton (with old enclosures) 1,800
1823 North Burton 1,920 {36,147}
1823 Ferriby and Kirk Ella 3,350
1830 Blacktoft, Eastrington and South Cave,
all F. 430
1832 Bubwith 1,700
1833 Great Gwindale 650
1843 Hemingbrough
1844 Brandes Burton
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_Enclosed under the General Enclosure Act, 1845._
Date Date
of of Parish. Area.
Act. Award.
* 1849 Mappleton 1,060
* 1851 Cottam (Langtoft P.) 2,515
1878 1880 Riccall 1,297
1901 Skipworth 321
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5,193
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Acres.
Before 1802 227,009
1802–1845 42,277
After 1845 5,193
YORKSHIRE, NORTH RIDING.
Area
Date. Enclosure. enclosed.
1748 Faceby in Cleveland, 700 A. F., 900 A. P. 1,600
1755 Marsk and Redcar 1,400
″ Slingsby
1756 Sutton upon the Forest, 1,300 A. F. 3,000
″ Warthill, 40 oxgangs 800
1758 Brompton and Sawden, 8 F.’s etc.
1759 East Cotham, 400 A. F., 400 A. P. 800
1766 Stillington 1,400
1768 East Ayton 1,337
1769 Ebberston 1,200
″ Haxby 1,640
″ Sheriff Hutton and West Lilting,
833 A. F., 837 A. P. 1,670
1770 Upper Dunsforth and Braxton,
500 A. F., 100 A. P. 600 {15,447}
1771 Scalby and Throxenby or Newby,
2,000 A. F. 4,000
1773 Wilton (Ellerburn P.) 700
1774 Swinton (Appleton P.) 700
1776 Amotherby
″ Lyth
″ Stonegrave, Westness and Nunnington 1,110
1777 Bulmer
1784 Lockton
1785 Wykham and Ruston 2,000
1787 Lastingham
1788 Kirkbymoorside, Fadmoor and Gillamoor
1789 Cold Kirkby
1790 Hutton Bushnell, 700 A. F., 170 A. M.,
1250 A. P.
″ Linton, 50 A. F., 480 A. P. 530 {26,607}
1791 Norton in the Clay 800
1793 West Tanfield, 80 A. F., 500 A. P. 580
1794 Old Malton, 2 F.’s, one 416 A.,
other 14 A. 1,500
″ Skelton, 75 oxgangs, F., 200 A. P. 1,100
1798 Sowerby 1,100
1800 Tholthorpe and L. Flawith 1,570
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1802 Flixton 2,600
″ Richmond, 344 A. F., 1,340 A. P. 1,684
1803 Wilton, Laxenby, Lackenby
and West Coatham 1,100
1806 Kirkdale and Hemsley 950
1807 Alne 600
″ Hunton, about 40 A. F. 720
1808 Easingwold 500
1809 Helperby
″ Skelton {8,154}
1809 Allerston 14,000
1810 Gilling in Richmondshire 300
″ Tollerton
1811 Westerdale, all F. 190
″ Lune, Holwick and Romaldkirk, 302 A. F. 6,840
1812 Newton upon Ouze and Shipton 911
1815 Melsonby 600
1833 Bedale 176
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31,171
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_Enclosed under the General Enclosure Act, 1845._
Date Date
of of Parish. Area.
Act. Award.
* 1853 Hinderwell 894
1864 1870 Leake 140
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1,034
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Acres.
Before 1802 33,257
1802–1845 31,171
After 1845 1,034
APPENDIX C.
LELAND’S ITINERARY.
NORTHAMPTON, LEICESTER AND RUTLANDSHIRES.
Leland entered Northamptonshire from Huntingdonshire, coming through
Kimbolton and the village of Leighton. We have in Vol. I., folio 3:--
“From Leighton to Barnewel Village” (in Northamptonshire) “a vi miles
by exceeding faire Corne and pasture ground.”
“Thence to Oundle ... the Medowes lying on every side on a great Leavel
thereabouts.”
“Oundale to Foderingeye, a 2 miles by mervelous fair Corne ground and
Pasture, but little wodde.”
“From Welingborow to Northampton 8 miles al be champaine Corne and
Pasture Ground, but little wood or none, even as it is betwixt Oundale
and Welingborow” (fol. 7).
“Wedon is a praty throughfare, sette on a playne ground” (fol. 11).
“Towcester is 7 miles from Wedon and as much from Northampton, al by
playne Corne ground and pasture.”
“Northampton to Kingesthorpe a mile, and a little farther, by Multon
Parke enclosed with Stone ... thens by Champayne Ground, bering good
grasse and Corne, a ix mile to Ketering” (fol. 12).
“Thens to Welledon, an uplandish Towne, 4 miles, where the Soile is
sumwhat furnished about with wood, and plentee beside of Corne and
Grasse ... And thens 2 mile by Corne, Pasture and Wood to Deene.”
“From Dene to Rokingham, by summe Corne and Pasture but more Wood
grounde a 3 miles” (fol. 13).
“There lyeth a greate valley under the Castle of Rokingham, very
plentifull of Corne and Grasse ... The Forest ... about 20 mile yn
length, and in bradthe 5 or 4 Miles in sum places in sum less. And
withyn the precinctes of it is good Corne and Plentie of Woodde.”
“Rokingham to Pippewelle, the late Abbay, abut a 3 Miles of by Wood and
Pasture.”
“Dene to Haringworth a 3 Miles be Corne, Grasse, and sum Woody Grounde”
(fol. 14).
Then entering Leicestershire, he says:--
“The grounde bytwixt Dene and Staunton is plentiful of corne, and
exceeding faire and large Medowis on both sides of the Weland. But from
Rokingham to Staunton there was in sight little Wodde, as yn a Countrey
al Chaumpain. From Staunton to Leycester al by Champaine Grounde an 8
or 9 Miles” (fol. 15).
“Leyrcester to Brodegate by grounde welle Wooddid 3 miles ... Brodegate
to Groby a Mile and a half much by Woodden lande” (fol. 19).
“Brodegate to Leighborow about a v Miles. 1st foreste of Charley
communely called the Wast, xx miles or more in Cumpace, having plenty
of woode” (fol. 20). The forest of Leyrcester, the other forest of the
county, he says, is five miles in length.
“Brodegate to Bellegrave Village a 4 miles by Woddy and Pasture
Grounde” ... “Bellegrave to Ingresby a 4 Miles, partely by Corne,
Pasture, and Woddy ground.... Thens to Wiscombe a 4 Miles by Corne,
Pasture and Wood ... faire Orchardes and Gardenes” (fol. 22).
“_Marke that such parte of Leyrcestershire as is lying South and Est is
Champaine, and hath little Wood. And such parte of Leircestershire as
lyith by West and North hath much woodde_” (fol. 24).
Next he passes through Rutlandshire into Northamptonshire again:--
“From Wiscombe partely through Woddy ground of the Forest of Leefield,
and so in Ruthelandshir by Woddy first, and then all champain Ground,
but exceeding rich Corne and Pasture, to Uppingham ... from Uppingham
to Haringworth (Northamptonshire) 3 little miles, al by Champaine ...
Dene to Cliffe Parke 3 Miles; it is partely waullid with stone, and
partely palid. From Dene to Coliweston a 5 or 6 Miles, partely by
Champaine, partely by Woodde ground” (fol. 25).
“From Coly Weston to Grimesthorpe (in Lincolnshire) about an 8 or 9
most by playne Ground, good of Corne and Pasture, but little wood”
(fol. 26).
His journey then took him northwards, but returning, he again passed
through Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire, and notes:--
“Notingham to Bever (Belvoir) all by champaine ground, 12 miles” (fol.
113).
“Bever to Croxton, 2 miles” (fol. 115).
“Croxton to Castleford Bridge by champaine” (fol. 115).
“Castleford Bridge to Stamford 1 mile” (fol. 115).
“Stamford to Colyweston 2½ miles, champayn” (fol. 115).
“Colyweston to Dene, moste by Chaumpaine” (fol. 115).
“Dene to Foderingeye, most by wood, 6 miles” (fol. 116).
“Foderingey to Undale, 2 miles, champaine” (fol. 116).
“Thens a 9 mile to Layton in Huntingdonshire, Champaine” (fol. 116).
“To Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire, 8 miles” (fol. 116).
“To Bedford, 14 miles, champaine” (fol. 116).
WARWICK.
“From Charlecote to Stratford a 3 Miles by Champaine, good corn and
grasse” (166 b).
“I roade from Stratford by champaine Ground, fruitfull of Corne and
Grasse a 5 miles ... thence 2 miles by Champaine to Coughton. From
Coughton to Aulcester 2 miles by enclosed Ground (167 b). I roade from
Aulcester towards Evvesham a 2 Miles by woody and inclosed Ground, and
then a mile by Ground lesse inclosed, but havinge more Corne then wood.
Thence a 4 miles by cleane Champion” (168 b).
Having thus entered Gloucestershire, he came through Worcester
and Lichfield, and so re-entered Warwickshire from the north, and
found--“Colishull to Meriden 4 m. by enclosed ground having some
corne, wood and pasture. 3 miles by like ground to Coventry” (190 a).
To Southam was “4 m. good corne and pasture in Champion,” thence to
Banbury in Oxfordshire “10 m. by champaine, noe wood but exceedinge
good Pasture and corne.”
BUCKINGHAM.
From Dunstable to “Mergate,” as we have seen, was “al by Chaumpaine
a vj miles” (vol. 1, fol. 120). But “thens by Chiltern Hilles and
woods and baren woody and ferne ground vij miles to Barkhanstede” (in
Herts, near the Buckingham boundary, fol. 121). “Thens I passid by
Hilly, Woody, and much baren ground to Cheynes (in Bucks) a v miles ...
v miles good Pasture and Corne, v miles mory Ground, and 3 m. by sum
enclosid and Woddy ground to Windelsore. From Windelsore by a 3 miles
most be wood and enclosid, and 2 m. in faire open and levelle medow ...
to Tamise ... Half a mile to Stanes Bridge” (fol. 122).
On a later journey he came from Oxford, and entered Bucks at Thame
“by some Hilly and after great Pasture Groundes, fruitfull of beanes
a 10 m. to Querendon in the Vale of Alesbury. Thens 5 m. to Alesbury
all champaine” (Vol. IV. 191 b). But from Hagmondesham (Amersham) to
Uxbridge was “9 miles by goodly enclosid grounds.”
OXFORDSHIRE.
He came from Reading and crossed the river to Caushem (Caversham).
“Thens I rode a v miles and more all by great Woddes. And thens by
Chaumpaine hilly ground a 4 m. to Ewelm” (Vol. II. fol. 5). “From Ewelm
to Haseley a v m. by Chaumpaine Ground somewhat plentiful of corn, but
most layid to Pasturage” (fol. 7). “From Haseley to Chisilhampton by
plaine ground fruteful of corne and Grasse, but baren of wood as al
that Angle of Oxfordshire is, 3 miles. Thens to Drayton Village. Thens
a mile to Dorchester” (fol. 10). “To Walingford 1½ m. by mervelus fair
Champain” (fol. 12). Here he again crossed the Thames into Berkshire;
but later he entered the north west of the county, and found the
district from Sutton to Banbury “all by champaine barren of wood” (Vol.
IV., fol. 162 b), and the first 12 miles of the road from Banbury to
Warwick “by Champaine Groundes, fruitful of Corne and Grasse” (163
a). Similarly from Southam (in Warwickshire) to Banbury was “10 m. by
champaine, noe wood but exceedinge good Pasture and corne,” and from
Banbury to Bercester (Bicester) was 10 or 11 miles of “champaine.”
LINCOLN.
“From Coly Weston to Grimesthorpe about an 8 Miles or 9, most by playn
Ground, good of corne and pasture, but little wood” (Vol. I. fol. 26).
“From Grimesthorpe to Corby about a 3 Miles by Champayne Ground....
Thens to Boutheby a 3 Miles, and thereaboute is meately store of Wodde
scaterid” (fol. 27). “From Boutheby to Hayder al by Champaine ground,
fertile of corne and grasse, 4 Miles. From Hayder to Sleford a vj Miles
al by Champaine grounde (fol. 29). From Sleforde to Ancaster a 4 Miles
by Chaumpaine (fol. 30). Ancaster to Temple Bruern al by Champaine of
Ancaster Heth a 4 Miles.... From Temple Bruern to Lincoln 10 Miles
by Champaine” (fol. 32). “Lincoln to Torkesey parte by Marsh Ground,
and part by other, but very little wood, a 7 Miles. Torkesy to Marton
Village about a mile by plaine sandy ground” (fol. 35).
YORKSHIRE, EAST RIDING.
“From York to Kexby Bridge by Champaine v miles” (Vol. I. fol. 49).
Thence he went to Leckenfield, a village a little to the north of
Beverley, “And al this way betwixt York and the Parke of Lekenfeld is
meately fruteful of Corn and Grass, but it hath little wood” (fol. 49).
He then went south to Hull and returned to Beverley: “From Kingeston to
Beverle a vj Miles, a v by low pasture and Marsch Ground, and a Mile by
enclosid and sumwhat woddy ground” (fol. 57). Starting from Beverley
again towards Goole he has “Beverle to Walkington Village a 2 Mile, one
by enclosid, and another by chaumpaine good corne land. Walkington to
North Cave Village 5 Miles by fair champain corn ground. Northcave to
Scalby a 3 Miles al by low Marsch and Medow Ground” (fol. 57).
“From Scalby to Hoveden (Howden) 4 M. scant one by enclosid Pasture and
3 by Morische and Fenny ground” (fol. 58). “From Hoveden to Wresehill
(Wressel) a 3 Miles al by low Medow and Pastureground, whereof part
is enclosed with Hegges” (fol. 59). “From Wresehill ... Ferry about a
Mile, most by Medow Ground, and so a xj Miles to York, whereof most
parte was in sight Medow and Morisch Ground, and but meane corne, but
toward York the soyle and corne were better” (fol. 69).
NORTH AND WEST RIDINGS.
He came on his first journey from Scrooby in Notts to Doncaster. He
observes, “Bawtre to Doncaster an vij Miles by a great Plaine and Sandy
ground caullid Blitherle” (Vol. I. fol. 37), Round Doncaster is “Medow,
Corn and sum wood,” but from “Tikhill to Cunesborow (Conisbrough) a 4
Miles by stony way and enclosid ground” (fol. 39), and from “Dancaster
to Heathfield (Hatfield) by champayn sandy ground a 5 Miles,” and here
comes Hatfield Chase, the scene of Vermuiden’s labours later. He return
to Doncaster and went north and found “The ground between Dancaster and
Pontefract in sum places meately wooddid and enclosid ground” (fol.
42); from “pontefract to S. Oswaldes by much enclosid and meately woddy
ground a 3 Miles or more” (fol. 44). From St. Oswalds to Sandon village
(a mile from Wakefield), “a 3 Miles by enclosid Ground” (fol. 44). From
Wakefield to Pontefract direct was “a vj miles parte by Enclosure,
parte by Champaine” (fol. 46). Thence to Leeds, he found first three
miles of enclosed ground, then five miles of low meadow, and “good high
plaine corne ground” (fol. 46).
From Leeds to Tadcaster was apparently unenclosed, but from Tadcaster
to York there was first 4 miles of enclosed ground, then four by “playn
Champaine” (fol. 48). “From York to Stockton yn the Moore a 3 Miles by
low Pasture and moreisch Ground.... Thens a 5 Miles by much lyke Ground
... a little beyond that as about half a M. is Whitewelle Village.
Thereabout the Fieldes for a Miles space were inclosid.... Thens a 2
M. by Fyrry. Thens to Malton a 3 Miles, and the ground is hilly there
and daly and plentiful of Corne and Pasture (Vol. I. fol. 63). From
Malton to Shirburne Village about an 8 miles by Champaine Ground. From
Shirburne by Hilles to Semar. Thens a Mile by Meately plaine Ground,
and so 2 Miles more in a vale enclosid with stepe Hilles on ech side to
Scardeburg (fol. 66).
“Moste of the Ground from Scardeburg to Pykering was by Hille and Dale
meate plentiful of Corn and Grasse but little wood in sight” (fol. 70).
The vale of Pickering was open field land.
North-west of York itself was the great forest of Galtres, ten miles
through (fol. 74). At Herperly Village beyond was “meately good corn
ground, Pasture and Medow and sum Wooddes” (fol. 75).
Further south. “From Kirkeby Wisk to Northalverton a 4 Miles by Pasture
and Corne Ground” (fol. 75).
Returning later from Durham we have from Greta Bridge to Richmond, “sum
good corn and much More (fol. 95). Richmond to Middleham, al by mory
Ground and little wood” but “Middleham to Gervalx Abbay a 2 Miles most
by enclosed Pastures.” His route lay through Ripon, West Tanfield,
Boroughbridge, to Knaresborough; he notes pasture, corn, wood and moor.
Then comes the great forest of Knaresborough, 20 miles long and 8
broad. Then he went south through Pontefract and Doncaster, finding
after Doncaster “3 Mile al by Champain ground” (fol. 105).
He came again into Yorkshire from Lancashire, and found by the Ouse
near York “the ground was fair of Pasture, Corne and wood” (Vol. V.
fol. 91), and from “Shirburne to Pontfract 6 m. soile in sight plaine,
wel cornid, but little wood” (_ibid._), and coming south, there is
“woddy Grounds,” and “soile riche of wood, Pasture, corne,” but no
mention of enclosure.
WESTERN COUNTIES.
Leland’s observations are as follows. He saw, approaching Lechdale
on crossing the Thames from Faringdon, “In ripa ulterori ... greate
Enclosures of stone walls” (Vol. II. fol. 22). He turned into
Wiltshire, and came from Bradford into the neighbourhood of Bath and
East Somerset. Burton to South Cadbury, and thence to Sherborne, just
over the Dorset boundary, was “fair and fruteful Champain” (fol. 47),
but by another route back from Sherborne to South Cadbury “the Pastures
and Fieldes be much enclosid with Hegge Rowes of Elmes” (fol. 50), and
a little later he says that “most part of al Somertsetshire is yn hegge
rows enclosid” with elms (fol. 55).
Some details are given later. Southtown to Midsummer Norton was “hilly
and enclosid,” but Midsummer Norton to Wells “chaumpayne” (Vol. VIII.
fol. 5), but thence south to Munney Delamere “hilly and enclosid” (fol.
7). Midsummer Norton to Mells (near Frome) was champayn (Vol. VIII.
part 2, fol. 78 a). From Bath to Kelston (in Wilts) was champaine (fol.
67 b) and the triangular district between Bristol, Bath and Chipping
Sodbury about half enclosed and half “champaine,” and also the district
on the other side of the Bristol Avon towards Frome in Somerset, the
immediate neighbourhood of Frome being open (Vol. VII., part 2, fol.
68–77).
Aulcester (in Warwick), to Evesham was “2 Miles by woody and inclosed
ground, and then a mile by Ground lesse inclosed.... Thence 4 miles
by cleane Champion” (Vol. IV. fol. 168 b), and the “champion Ground”
continued for 6 or 7 miles to Stanwey, on the Cheltenham road.
North-west Worcester seems to have been generally enclosed. We have
Bridgenorth (in Shropshire) to Kidderminster “mostly enclosed ground”
(Vol. IV. fol. 182 b). Bewdley to Milton, Milton to Hertlebury, and
hence to Worcester is all described as “enclosed Ground” (183 b and 184
a), and so also the country between Worcester and Bromsgrove (185 a and
186 b).
APPENDIX D.
GENERAL LEGISLATION AFFECTING ENCLOSURE.
(Previous to the General Enclosure Act of 1845.)
STATUTE OF MERTON (1235), c. 4.
Enabled lords of manors, on leaving sufficient pasture for their
tenants on the waste, to enclose the residue; but the lord must prove
that the tenants have sufficient pasture, and means of ingress and
egress.
STATUTE OF WESTMINSTER (1285), c. 46.
Enabled lords of manors in which the waste was used as a common pasture
by other manors, to enclose against their neighbours, when no specific
grant of a right of common pasture had been made. It also provided
against the creation of new common rights. “By occasion of a Windmill,
Sheepcote, Dairy, enlarging of a court necessary, or Courtelage, from
henceforth no man shall be grieved by Assize of Novel Disseisin for
Common of Pasture.” If after enclosure under this act the hedges are
pulled down, the neighbouring townships may be distrained upon for
damages.
ACTS FOR THE PROTECTION OF FORESTS.
21 EDWARD IV. (1482), c. 7.
In a forest subject to common rights after a wood has been felled the
land may be enclosed for seven years to protect the young timber.
35 HENRY VIII. (1544), c. 17.
Where woods are subject to common rights, lords of manors may enclose
one fourth of the wood for seven years, and fell the timber, leaving
12 young trees per acre standing. Meanwhile the lord of the manor
surrenders his common rights upon the remaining three fourths. Kent,
Surrey and Sussex were excluded from the operation of the act.
13 ELIZABETH (1571), c. 25.
This makes the preceding Act perpetual.
DEPOPULATION ACTS.
The preamble of the first of this series of Acts, though well known, is
here quoted in part.
4 HENRY VII. (1489), c. 19.
“Our King and Sovereign Lord ... remembreth that ... great
inconveniences do daily increase by desolation and pulling downe, and
wilfull waste of houses and townes within this realme and laying to
Pasture Lands, which customably have been used in tillage, whereby
idlenesse, which is the ground and beginning of all mischiefes, daily
doth encrease. For where in some townes two hundred persons were
occupied and lived by their lawfull labours, now there are occupied two
or three heardmen, and the residue fall into idlenesse, the husbandrie,
which is one of the greatest commodities of this Realme is greatly
decayed, Churches destroyed, the service of God withdrawn, the bodies
there buried, not prayed for....”
To check these evils all occupiers of 20 acres and upwards of land that
had been tilled in the previous three years, are required to maintain
tillage, under pain of forfeiting to the lord of the manor one half of
the profits of such land.
6 HENRY VIII. (1515), c. 5.
This was a temporary Act, in principle identical with the one passed in
the following session.
7 HENRY VIII. (1516), c. 1.
This Act applied only to parishes “whereof the more part was or were
used and occupied to tillage and husbandry.” In such places “If any
person shall decay a Town, a Hamlet, or House of Husbandry, or convert
tillage into Pasture” and have not “within j. yeere next after such
wylfull decaye reedefyed and made ageyn mete and convenyent for people
to dwell and inhabyte the same, and have use, and therein to exercyse
husbandry and tyllage” he forfeits one half of his land to the lord of
the manor, until the offence is reformed. Land converted to pasture
must again be tilled “after the maner and usage of the countrey where
the seyd land lyeth.”
This Act was followed by the Inquisition of 1517.
ACT FOR RESTRAINING SHEEP FARMING.
25 HENRY VIII. (1534), c. 13.
This is an Act to deal with the economic cause of depopulating
enclosures.
“Sundry persons have of late daily studied how to gather into few hands
great multitude of Farms and great Plenty of Cattle, and in especial
Sheep, putting such land as they can get to Pasture, and not to
tillage, whereby they have not only pulled down Churches and Towns and
inhanced the old Rates ... so that poor men are not able to meddle with
it ... it is thought that the great occasions that moveth and provoketh
those greedy and covetous people ... is only the great Profit that
cometh of Sheep.”
It is said that “some have 24,000, some 20,000, some 10,000, some
6,000, some 5,000 and some more, some less.”
It is enacted that with certain exceptions no one may keep more than
2,000 sheep under a penalty of 3_s._ 4_d._ per sheep per annum, half of
the fine going to the crown, half to the informer. No man, further, may
take more than two farms, and these must not be in the same parish.
DEPOPULATION ACTS.
27 HENRY VIII. (1536), c. 22.
This Act recites 4 Henry VII., c. 19, the first of the Depopulation
Acts; and states that it had been enforced only in lands held
immediately of the King. Now “the King shall have the Moiety of
the Profits of those lands already converted for Tillage to Pasture
sithence three years before Ann. 4 H. 7 until the Owner hath builded
up a convenient House to inhabit, and converted the same Pasture to
Tillage again; and also take the Moiety of the issues of those lands
hereafter to be converted, if the immediate Lord do it not within one
year,” until the owners have built a Tenement for every 50, 40 or
30 acres, and have reconverted the pasture to tillage. Again it is
stipulated that the land shall be tilled “according to the nature of
the soil and the course of Husbandry used in the country where any such
lands do lie.”
27 HENRY VIII. (1536), c. 28.
Persons to whom monastic lands had been granted by Henry VIII. are
required to maintain yearly as much of the land in tillage and
husbandry as had commonly been so used within the preceding 20 years,
under a penalty of 6_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ per month.
CONFIRMATION OF STATUTE OF MERTON.
3 & 4 EDWARD VI. (1550), c. 3.
This Act cites and confirms the Statutes of Merton and Westminster
and facilitates the recovery of damages for breaking down the hedges
erected to enclose wastes.
DEPOPULATION ACTS.
5 & 6 EDWARD VI. (1552), c. 5.
This Act requires that so much land be tilled yearly in any parish as
had been tilled at any time since the accession of Henry VIII., under a
penalty of 5_s._ per acre per annum.
Four Commissioners were to be appointed to enquire into the conversion
of arable into pasture.
The Act did not apply to--
(1) Land that had been pasture for 40 years.
(2) Waste ground, common downs, fens, moors, marshes.
(3) Lawful warren.
(4) Woodland converted into pasture.
(5) Land in deer parks.
(6) Salt marshes and inundated land.
(7) Land enclosed by licence of the King or his predecessor.
2 & 3 PHILIP AND MARY (1555–6), c. 2.
This cites and confirms the original Depopulation Act of 4 Henry VII.
and makes it apply to all houses with 20 acres of land, whether the
land is in tillage or not.
Commissioners to be appointed to enquire into all grounds converted
into pasture since St. George’s Day, in the 20th year of Henry VIII. to
see to the re-edifying of houses, and the reconversion of pasture into
tillage. The exceptions permitted are where lands have been enclosed
by the King’s licence, and by discretion of the Commissioners in cases
where no public benefit, but individual hardship would ensue by the
execution of the Act.
Rents increased on the conversion of tillage into pasture were to be
abated; re-edified houses were to be let with 20 acres of land or 10
acres if the owner has no more.
The penalty of laying land down into pasture was again fixed at 5_s._
per acre per annum, half to be paid to the Crown, half to the informer.
5 ELIZABETH (1563), c. 2.
By this Act the more recent Depopulation Acts, 27 Henry VIII. c. 28, 5
& 6 Edward VI. c. 5, and 2 & 3 Philip and Mary, c. 2, were repealed as
ineffectual; but the earlier ones, 4 Henry VII. c. 19, 7 Henry VIII. c.
22 and 27 Henry VIII. c. 22, ordered to be put into execution.
It was also enacted that “such lands or so much in quantity in any
place as hath been put in Tillage and eared in any one year and so kept
four years sithence the feast of St. George the Martyr, anno 20 Henry
VIII. shall be eared and kept in Tillage, according to the Nature of
the Soil and Custom of the Country by the Occupier thereof.”
The penalty was raised to 10_s._ per acre per annum, and it could be
recovered by the next heir in reversion if he sued for it within a
year, if not, by the Remainderman, or in default by the lord of the
manor, and if not so recovered, by the Crown.
This Act remained in force for thirty years, but was discontinued by 35
Elizabeth (1593), c. 5.
ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF COTTAGERS’ HOLDINGS AND RIGHTS OF COMMON.
31 ELIZABETH (1589), c. 7.
This Act prohibited the letting of cottages to agricultural labourers
with less than four acres of land under a penalty of 40_s._ per cottage
per month, or the occupation of one cottage by more than one family,
under a penalty of 10_s._ per cottage per month. The amount of land
attached to cottages let to countrymen following other occupations was
also regulated. These holdings were evidently intended to be acres in
the arable fields, carrying with them the proportional common rights of
pasturage, &c. This Act was repealed in 1775.
DEPOPULATION ACTS.
39 ELIZABETH (1597), c. 1.
In the preamble of this Act it is stated that in late years more than
in times past, sundry towns, parishes and houses of husbandry have been
destroyed and become desolate. All previous Acts for the re-edification
of houses are repealed, and it is enacted that when houses of husbandry
have been decayed for more than seven years, half the number must be
rebuilt, and 40 acres of land allotted to them; unless the property had
been sold meanwhile; in that case the purchaser need only rebuild one
quarter of the decayed houses.
Where houses had decayed within the previous seven years, they are to
be rebuilt; and if previously they had less than 40 acres of land, they
must now at least have 20 acres; if previously they had 40 acres or
more, they must now have at least 40 acres.
The penalty for not rebuilding the farmhouse, was £10 per house per
annum; for not assigning the prescribed quantity of land, 10_s._ per
acre per annum. One third of the penalty went to the Queen, one third
to the parish, one third to the informer.
It is also enacted that it shall be lawful for any lord of the manor to
make exchanges of lands, whether arable, pasture or meadow, with his
tenants, and for the tenants, with the consent of the lord, to make
exchanges with one another, for the sake of more convenient occupation
and husbandry. In other words the re-arrangement of the intermixed
holdings in common arable fields and common meadows is expressly
sanctioned.
39 ELIZABETH (1597), c. 2.
The preamble states that from the 7th year of Henry VII.’s reign to
the 35th year of the current reign there had always been in force some
Act for the maintenance of tillage, but in the latter year all such
laws were discontinued; and that in consequence in the period 1593–1597
“there have growen many more Depopulacions by turning Tillage into
Pasture than at any time for the like number of years heretofore.”
It is enacted that lands converted from tillage to pasture shall be
re-converted within three years, and that lands now in tillage shall
remain so, under a penalty of 20_s._ per acre per annum. The Act
applies to the counties of Bedford, Berkshire, Buckingham, Cambridge,
Derby, Dorset, Durham, Gloucester, Hampshire, Hereford, Huntingdon,
Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottingham, Oxford,
Rutland, Somerset, Warwick, Wiltshire, Worcester, Yorkshire, with the
Isle of Wight, and Pembroke in South Wales.
It did not apply to Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Devon, Essex,
Hertford, Kent, Lancashire, Middlesex, Monmouth, Norfolk, Shropshire,
Stafford, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex and Westmoreland.
This Act remained on the Statute Book for 266 years. The earlier
Depopulation Acts were repealed by 21 James I., c. 28, but this Act
remained theoretically part of the law of the land until repealed
by the Statute Law Revision Act of 1863. This was the last of the
Depopulation Acts.
AN ENCLOSURE ACT.
4 JAMES I. c. 11.
This is really a local Enclosure Act. The people of the parishes of
Merden, Bodenham, Wellington, Sutton St. Michael, Sutton St. Nicholas,
Murton-upon-Lug, and Pipe in Hereford, had all their lands, whether
meadow, pasture or arable, open and intermixed, and commonable “after
Sickle and Sithe.” They themselves were accustomed to house their
sheep and cattle throughout the year, and the people of neighbouring
villages took advantage of this custom to turn in cattle after harvest.
The enclosure of one third of the land in each parish is authorised by
the Act.
ACTS FOR IMPROVING THE CULTIVATION OF COMMON FIELDS.
13 GEORGE III. (1773), c. 81.
This Act has been considered in the text.
41 GEORGE III. (1801), c. 20.
This was a temporary Act to encourage the cultivation of potatoes in
common arable fields. The famine prices of 1800–1 caused a good deal of
curious special legislation. Any occupier of land in common fields is
authorised to plant potatoes, and to guard them from cattle grazing in
the fields, on giving compensation for the loss of the common right to
the other occupiers.
ACTS FOR FACILITATING ENCLOSURE.
41 GEORGE III. (1801), c. 109.
This is the General Enclosure Act promoted by the Board of Agriculture
of 1793–1819. It is entitled “An Act for consolidating in one Act
certain provisions usually inserted in Acts of inclosure, and for
facilitating the mode of proving the several facts usually required in
the passing of such Acts.”
1 & 2 GEORGE IV. (1821), c. 23.
This amends the previous Act, so as to better regulate the cultivation
of parishes during the progress of enclosure by Act.
1 & 2 WILLIAM IV. (1831), c. 42.
By this the churchwardens and overseers of a parish may enclose, up to
50 acres of waste, with the consent of the lord of the manor and the
majority of the owners of common rights, for the relief of the poor
rates, or let the land so enclosed to poor and industrious persons. By
another Act in the same session (c. 57) the principle is applied to
Crown lands.
4 & 5 WILLIAM IV. (1834), c. 30.
An Act to facilitate the exchange of intermixed lands in common fields,
by removing difficulties caused by some owners being minors, insane, &c.
6 & 7 WILLIAM IV. (1836), c. 115.
This is an important Act “for facilitating the enclosure of open and
arable fields in England and Wales.” Two-thirds in number and value
of common arable fields may appoint commissioners for carrying out
enclosure, as if enclosure had been authorised by a special Act. The
awards were to be deposited in the parish churches.
If seven-eighths of the proprietors were agreed, enclosure could be
carried out without the appointment of commissioners.
This Act is not to authorise the enclosure of common fields within
10 miles of the centre of London, within 1 mile from the centre of a
town of 5,000 inhabitants, 1½ miles from one of 15,000 inhabitants,
2 miles from one of 30,000 inhabitants, 2½ miles from one of 70,000
inhabitants, or 3 miles from one of 100,000 inhabitants.
3 & 4 VICT. (1840), c. 31.
This was an Act amending the last, by extending its scope to lammas
meadows; and providing that persons who were dissatisfied with awards
under the preceding Act forfeited their right of appeal if they took
possession of the lands allotted to them.
APPENDIX E.
A NORFOLK OPEN FIELD PARISH.
The parish of Runton, adjoining Cromer, is unenclosed, and throws
some light on Norfolk common field custom, and on the curious law
with regard to “liberties of fold courses.” There are in the parish
two villages, East and West Runton. Most of the land in the parish is
either common, or open field arable land. Of the open field arable,
about 600 acres are “half year land” and between four and five hundred
acres “whole year land.” Both the whole year land and the half year
land is intermixed, both in ownership and occupation, but the extent
of intermixture has been steadily and continuously reduced. There is
a tendency for adjoining strips of land to be let to one and the same
farmer, and he is allowed to plough down the balks, in Runton called
_lawns_ or _loons_, which separate them. There are no common rights
over the whole year land. There is an area of whole year land of 200
acres or more around each village, which is where one would expect to
find it; and very curiously, a detached area of about 20 acres half way
between the villages. There is no well marked boundary separating whole
year from half year lands.
The half year lands are commonable from Michaelmas to Lady Day old
style, that is from October 11th to April 11th. There is no prescribed
rule of cultivation, but the customary course is:--first year, wheat;
second, turnips; third, barley sown with clover, the land under this
crop being “new ley land” after the barley is reaped; and in the fourth
year the land remains under clover and is called “old ley land” or
“ollay land.”
The peculiar feature, characteristic of Norfolk common field
agriculture, is that the owner of the Abbey Farm _in the next parish_,
has the right to pasture sheep on the half year lands of Runton; in
the words of the old Act, he has the “liberty of fold courses” of
Runton. Further, the Runton common right owners make up a flock called
“The Collet Flock,” and it is understood that wherever the Abbey flock
goes, the Collet Flock can go too.
But the two flocks are kept distinct, grazing separately, each with its
own shepherd.
INDEX.
Acreage of commons and common fields, 36
Acreage under wheat, 108
Acts for enclosing common fields, 7
Acts for enclosing waste, 7
Ackworth (Yorks.), 123
Adams, H. B.--“Germanic Origin of New England Towns,” 185;
“Village Communities of Cape Ann and Salem,” 184
Agriculture, Board of (existing), 16
Agriculture, Board of, (1793–1819), _passim_.
Ailesworth (N. Hants.), 13
Ailesworth Heath, 17
Alconbury (Hunts.), 123
Amesbury (Wilts.), 235
Arden (Warwick), 205
Area of surviving common fields, 189
Area of recently enclosed common fields, 191
Ashby Magna, 208
Averham (Notts.), 137
Avon, the Wiltshire, 112
Avon, the Warwickshire, 205
Axholme, Isle of, 52
Aylesbury, Vale of, 221
Babraham (Cambs.), 210
Baird and Foot, “Middlesex,” 218
“Balks,” 15, 63
“Bancroft Field,” 61
“Barley Field,” 14
Barnady (Suffolk), 128
Barrowden (Rutland), 64
Bartlow (Cambs.), 82
Barton (Westmoreland), 177
Barton Turf (Norfolk), 127
Battersea common fields, 77
“Bean Field,” 12
Bear, W. E., Report to the Labour Commission on Agricultural
Labour, 137
Beddington and Wallington (Surrey), 41
Bedfordshire, enclosure of, 192
Belton (Axholme), 52
Belvoir, Vale of, 97, 200
Bensington (Oxon.), 51
Bentham, J.--“Societie of the Saints,” 160;
“Christian Conflict,” 202
Berkshire, enclosure of, 238
Berwick Salome (Oxon.), 51
Bestmoor (Oxon.), 35
Bishton, J., “Shropshire,” 252
“Black Corn Field,” 71
Blyth, W., “The English Improver,” 111, 201, 203, 219, 226, 253
Boldon book, the, 34
Bosworth (Leicester), 201
Boxworth (Cambs.), 210
Boys, “Kent,” 39, 230
Braunton Great Field, 159, 250
“Brecks,” 79
“Brewers’ Ash Field,” 20
Brightwell (Berks.), 68
Brixworth (N. Hants.), 104
“Broad Mead,” 67
“Broad Oxgangs,” 31, 32
Buckinghamshire, enclosure of, 219
Burley estate small holdings, 138
Burnham (Suffolk), 180
“Buscallys,” 78
Bygrave (Herts.), 45
Cambridgeshire, enclosure of, 208
Carew, “Cornwall,” 18, 160, 247
Carlton in Lindrick, 127
Carmichael, A., on Runrig, 166
Carpenter of village community, 34
“Carrs,” 78, 79
Castle Camps (Cambs.), 75
Castor (N. Hants.), 13
Catthorpe (Leicester), 111, 208
Celery growing in Axholme, 57
“Champaine,” or “Champion,” 64, 70, 205
“Changeable Allotments,” 24
Charnwood Forest, 204
Cheshire, enclosure of, 252
Chilterns, the, 231
“Chimney Peepers,” 22
Clark, J.--“Hereford,” 125, 252;
“Radnor,” 244
“Clipsatt Field,” 61
Clothall (Herts.), 43
Cobbett, W., “Rural Rides,” 112, 113, 237
Colchester, 214
“Comachadh,” 168
Constable of manor, 22, 34
Cornwall, enclosure of, 247
“Cotes,” 21
Cotswold Hills, 241
Cottage holdings, 121, 137
“Country Farmer, A,” 98, 131
“Country Gentleman, A,” 95
Court rolls, 20
Cow dung as fuel, 201
“Cowleaze,” 30
Cowper, John, “Inclosing Commons, etc.,” 110, 154
Crutchley, “Rutlandshire,” 77
Cumberland, enclosure of, 256
Cunningham, W., “Growth of English Industry,” 91, 115
“Customary Cottages,” 29
“Dales,” 257
Dartmoor, 170, 248
Davis, R., “Oxfordshire,” 76, 222
Davis, T., “Wiltshire,” 76, 77, 113, 114, 115, 236
Deddington (Oxon.), 103
Derbyshire, enclosure of, 228
Devonshire, enclosure of, 245
“Discourse of the Commonweal,” 39, 214, 246
Disputes in open fields, 15, 16, 47
“Doles,” 21, 78, 79
“Dolemeads,” 79
Donaldson, J., “Northamptonshire,” 197
Dorset, enclosure of, 240
“Down Field,” 61
Downham (Cambs.), 210
Durham, enclosure of, 229
Eakring (Notts.), 12
Earsham (Norfolk), 128
“East Field,” 20
Eden, “Condition of the Poor,” 102, 103, 104, 256
Elmstone Hardwick (Glos.), 15, 47
Eltham (Kent), 232
Ely (Cambs.), 210
Enclosure, meaning of, 1
Enclosure, methods, 6
Enclosure, typical act of, 3
Engrossing of farms, 68
Epping Forest, 2, 17
Epworth (Axholme), 52
Erchenfeld, 253
Essex, enclosure of, 213
Evenley (N. Hants.), 127
“Everington Field,” 69
“Every Year Lands,” 80, 178
Ewelme (Oxon.), 50
“Farthingholds,” 30
“Field Jury,” 11
Fiennes, Celia, “Tour,” 201, 212, 214, 222, 224, 226, 228, 229, 231,
238, 252, 255
Flax growing in Axholme, 54
“Fold Courses,” 83
Fordington (Dorset), 30
Fordington Field, 19, 30
“Foreman of the Fields,” 11, 14
Forrest, W., “Princelye Poesie,” 10
Foston (Leicester), 100
“Four Field Course,” 48, 74
Fox, J., “Glamorganshire,” 244
Frilsham Common, 69
Frome R., 20
Furze common (Ewelme), 51
Gateshead (Durham), 177
“Gathering and Splitting,” 15
Gavelkind, 245
General Enclosure Acts, 17
General report on enclosures, 95, 108, 123, 124, 129, 161
Gloucestershire, enclosure of, 241
Granger, J., “Durham,” 154, 229
“Great Horse Shoe,” 27
Great Sheepey (Leicester), 127
Grimspound (Dartmoor), 170
Grimston (Leicester), 138
Grimstone (Dorset), 19
Grimstone common rights, 31
Gunnerton (Northumberland), 179
Hadley Wood, 2
Hagbourne, West (Berks.), 68
Hale, J., defence of, 150
“Half-Livings,” 22
“Half-Plow,” 172
“Half-Year Lands,” 78, 80
Ham Field (Surrey), 65
Hambleton cow pasture, 138
Hampshire, enclosure of, 240
Hampstead Heath, 2, 17
Hasbach, W., “Die E. Landarbeiter,” 61
Hassell, C.--“Carmarthen,” 244;
“Pembroke,” 244
“Hatching Ground,” 23
Haxey (Axholme), 52
“Haywards,” 22, 34
“Headlands,” 15
Hendred, East and West (Berks.), 68
Henlow (Beds.), 3
Herefordshire, enclosure of, 252
Herringswell (Suffolk), 127, 188
Hertfordshire, enclosure of, 218
High Prices, Select Committee on, 108
Hildersham (Cambs.), 82
“Hitchland,” 20, 76
“Hole Rush,” 25
Holt, J., “Lancashire,” 255
“Hookland,” 20, 76
“Hook Mead,” 67
“Horse’s Foot of Land,” 173
“Horse-gang,” 172
Houghton, J., “Collection,” 155, 157
Howlett, J., 91, 100
“Hundred Acres,” 24, 28
Hunmanby (Yorks.), 88
Huntingdon, enclosure of, 212
Icklingham (Suffolk), 180
Iken (Suffolk), 214
Ilsley, East and West, 68
“Infields,” 80, 81, 187
“Ings,” 78, 79
Insurrections and enclosure, 112, 150
Intermixed lands, 243
Isleham (Cambs.), 74
Ivel, R., 4
James and Malcolm--“Buckinghamshire,” 75, 219;
“Surrey,” 77, 233
Kay, G.--“Flint,” 244;
“Carnarvon,” 244
Kent, enclosure of, 230
Kent, “Norfolk,” 85, 216, 217
Kets’ Rebellion, 150
Kibworth Beauchamp (Leicester), 103
Lambarde, W., “Perambulation of Kent,” 231
“Lacy’s Bridge Man,” 22
Lancashire, enclosure of, 255
“Lands,” 9
“Land spoilers,” 67
“Langford Field,” 20
“Launchers,” 250
Laurence, J., “New System of Agriculture,” 153
“Lawnds,” or “Lawns,” 20
Lawrence, E., “Duty of Steward,” 152, 155, 201, 207
Laxton (Notts.), 8
Laxton Heath, 9
Leadam, W. S., “Domesday of Inclosures,” 212, 225
Leatham, I., “East Riding,” 77, 89
Lee, Joseph, 111, 161, 202
Leland’s Itinerary, 203, 205, 212, 219, 221, 222, 224, 228, 239, 253,
256
Letcomb (Berks.), 128
“Leyland,” 77
“Liberty of Fold Courses,” 83
Lincolnshire, enclosure of, 222
Little Brandon (Norfolk), 127
“Little Horse Shoe,” 28
Littleport (Cambs.), 210
“Livings,” 21
Llanerlyl, 42
Lloyd, T., “Cardiganshire,” 244
Lolworth (Cambs.), 210
“Longlands,” 26
Long Sutton (Lincoln), 263
“Loons,” or “Lownts,” 20
“Lot Meadows,” 35
Lowe, R., “Nottinghamshire,” 92, 227
Luffenhall (Herts.), 45
Luffenham, North and South (Rutland), 64
Lynches, 70
“Maam” soil, 233
Macdonald, J., “Hebrides,” 173
“Machair,” 166
Madingley (Cambs.), 210
Maids Morton (Bucks.), 102
Maitland, F. W., “Select Pleas,” 156
Manor bull, 23
Marshall, W., “Central Highlands,” 172, 180;
“Rural economy of: Gloucestershire,” 108, 153, 241;
“Norfolk,” 79;
“Yorkshire,” 156;
“Midlands,” 206;
“Southern District,” 232, 235;
“West of England,” 248
Massachusetts, decrees for common fields, 185
Massie, J., 91
Matton (Lincoln), 177
Maxwell, G., “Huntingdonshire,” 74, 212
Mercian type of village community, 8
Mere (Wilts.), 236
“Meres,” 63
Merrow (Surrey), 66
Merton, statute of, 6
“Mesne inclosures,” 225
“Middle Field,” 20
Middlesex, enclosure of, 218
“Mill Bars Patch,” 26
“Mill Field,” 8, 16
“Mingle Mangle,” 18
Misterton (Leicester), 208
Monk, R., “Leicestershire,” 198
Monmouthshire, enclosure of, 252
Moore, John, 111, 201, 208
More, Sir T., “Utopia,” 116
Moreton, North (Berks.), 70
Morgan, G. B., “Cornwall,” 249
“Narrow Oxgangs,” 31
Nen, R., 17
“Nether Field,” 16
“New Closes,” 21
Newborough (N. Hants.), 197
Newtontony (Wilts.), 200
“No Ditch Field,” 61
Norden, J., “Book of Surveying,” 155, 214, 238
Norfolk, enclosure of, 217
Norham, 179
“Normangate Field,” 16
Northamptonshire, enclosure of, 197
Northbourne (Kent), 42
“North Field,” 61
Northumberland, enclosure of, 259
Northwold (Norfolk), 128
Nottinghamshire, enclosure of, 227
One field system, 179
Orford (Suffolk), 214
Ossington (Notts.), 137
Outer Hebrides, 166
“Out Field,” 77, 179
Over (Cambs.), 210
Owston (Axholme), 52
Oxfordshire, enclosure of, 222
“Oxgangs,” 31
Palling (Norfolk), 127
Palmer, A. N.--“Ancient Tenures,” 174, 245;
“Wrexham,” 20
Pang, R., 69
Parish Meeting, powers of, 50
Passenham (N. Hants.), 123
Pearce, W., “Berkshire,” 76
Pickering moor, 128
Pickering, vale of, 157
“Pindar,” 56
Pitt, W.--“Arable and Grassland,” 95;
“Leicestershire,” 97, 200;
“Staffordshire,” 252
“Places” (= Livings), 28
“Plowgait,” 172
Poor rates and enclosure, 102
Poppleton, 132
Potato growing in Axholme, 57
Potterne (Wilts.), 126
Poultney (Leicester), 208
Produce of common fields, 79, 111
Produce of enclosed land, 100, 111
Profit of enclosure, 98, 263
Quilleted fields, 42, 253
Quillets, 83, 266
“Ranes,” 257
Rathbone, G., “Eltham Charities,” 232
Recreation grounds, 18, 65, 71, 118
“Reeve,” 34, 89
Re-lifing copyholds, 19
Re-lifing leaseholds, 48
Renhold (Beds.), 44
Rents before and after enclosure, 100, 103, 111
Richmond Hill, view from, 66
“Rick Field,” 20
Rider Haggard, “Rural England,” 57, 138
“Ridge and Furrow,” 94
Riots and enclosure, 112
Robertson, J., “Perthshire,” 165, 173
“Robin Hood and Little John,” 17
Rockingham forest, 197, 204
“Rotation Meadows,” 35
“Rounds,” 88
Royal burghs of Scotland, 164
“Rundale,” 6
“Runrig,” 6, 166, 244
Rutland, enclosure of, 203
Sandwich Town Neck, 183
Salem north and south fields, 185
Salisbury, environs of, 235
Seebohm, F., “English Village Community,” 179
“Selions,” 56
“Shackage,” 45, 78, 79
“Shack Lands,” 78
“Shealing Feast,” 170
Sheepflock of village community, 22
Sheepwalk, right of, 45
Shilton (Berks.), 35
Shropshire, enclosure of, 252
“Sicks,” 11
Sinclair, Sir J., “Northern Counties of Scotland,” 165, 172
Six year course, 76
Skene, “Celtic Scotland,” 166, 173
Small holdings, 58, 61, 119
Small holdings, profit of, 121, 136, 139
Smith, Adam, “Wealth of Nations,” 94
Soham (Cambs.), 61, 210
Somerset, enclosure of, 242
“Souming,” 168
“Square Patch,” 27
Staffordshire, enclosure of, 252
“Stake Weir,” 27
Stamford (Lincoln), 177
Steeple Claydon, 75
Steventon (Berks.), 68, 71
“Stint Book,” 14
Stone, T.--“Bedfordshire,” 74;
“Lincolnshire,” 77, 223
Stratton (Dorset), 19
Stratton common rights, 31
Stratton meadow, 24, 25
Studham, 44
Suffolk, enclosure of, 214
Surrey, enclosure of, 233
Sussex, enclosure of, 232
Sutton (N. Hants.), 46
Sutton Coldfield (Warwick), 254
“Tenantry,” 113
Tithe commutation and enclosure, 40, 188
Tithe maps, 188
“Thorn Field,” 16
Three field course, 8, 14, 74
“Three Patches,” 26
Todenham (Gloucester), 123
“Tofts,” 10
Totternhoe (Beds.), 63
Tudor licences for enclosure, 6
Tulvey (Beds.), 123
Turnip culture, 81
Tusser, “Champion and Several,” 82
Tythingman, 22
Two field course, 71, 76
Upton St. Leonards (Gloucester), 18, 63
Value of land in Axholme, 60
Vancouver--“Cambridgeshire,” 75, 209;
“Essex,” 213
Venteland (Gwent), 253
“Viewers of the Fields,” 22
Village community, types of, 6
“Virgates,” 30
Wales, enclosure of, 243
Wales, W., 91
Walker, D., “Hertfordshire,” 75, 125
Wallingford (Berks.), 68
Wallington (Herts.), 45
“Walls,” 21
Water meadows, 116
Weald, enclosure of the, 232
Wedge--“Warwickshire,” 204,
“Cheshire,” 101, 252
Wessex, type of village community, 19
Westmoreland, enclosure of, 256
Weston field, 62
Weston Zoyland (Somerset), 61
“Wheatfield,” 14
“Whitecorn field,” 71
White Horse, vale of, 238
“Whole Livings,” 21
“Whole Year Lands,” 80, 81
Wilbraham (Cambs.), 128
Wimeswould (Leicester), 127
Winslow (Bucks), 102
Wistow (Leicester), 100, 101
“Wood Field,” 16
Worcestershire, enclosure of, 242
Wordsworth, H. W., “Lake District,” 257
Wytham-on-the-Hill (Lincoln), 179
“Yardlands,” 30, 113
Yattenden (Berks.), 68, 69
Yelden (Beds.), 44
Yelling (Hunts.), 180
Yorkshire, enclosure of, 224
Yorkshire wolds, 77
Young, A.--“Lincolnshire,” 53, 177, 263;
“Eastern Tour,” 94, 107, 201, 217, 221;
“Northern Tour,” 94, 107, 195, 224, 226, 230;
“Political Arithmetic,” 105;
“Wastes,” 126, 128
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Transcriber’s Note
Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the paragraph
(or, where relevant, quotation) to which they refer. A few missing
footnote anchors have been added.
Maps were originally included as plates, they have been moved to be
near the text they illustrate.
Some formatting and punctuation of abbreviations have been
standardized, and formatting and punctuation in lists has been made
consistent.
Appendix B, Private acts enclosing common fields, was printed in two
columns with, within counties, a “Carried forward” total at the end of
each column, and a corresponding “Brought forward” total at the start
of the next. These totals are shown here in parenthesis, e.g. {8,309},
to the right at their original position.
Variant spelling, inconsistent hyphenation, and inconsistent spelling
of place names are retained, however a few palpable printing errors
have been corrected.
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Page 14, footnote 2 “43 Geo. III. c. 81” has been changed to
“13 Geo. III. c. 81”.
Page 44, the reference to “the enclosure of Totternhoe” has been
changed from page 65 to page 63.
The first anchor for footnote 46, on page 98, originally pointed to a
footnote which said “See note ¹ on next page.”
Page 108, “10,625” has been changed to “10,265” for the net gain of
acres under wheat after enclosure.
Page 296, “Balckbourton” has been changed to “Blackbourton”.
Page 313, the pre 1845 total for Yorkshire, North Riding has been
changed from 3,171 to 31,171.
Page 310, in the totals for Yorkshire West Riding “Before 1842” has
been changed to “Before 1802”.
Page 329, “13 GEORGE IV. (1773), c. 81” has been changed to
“13 GEORGE III. (1773), c. 81”.
The following have been kept as printed:
Page 201, Footnote 94 Some words have been omitted from this rendition
of the quotation. Arthur Young wrote: “They daub it in lumps on all
the walls of their houses, barns, stables, etc. to dry”.
Page 274, Derbyshire, the acreage in the entry “1773 Church
Broughton” of “160 A. F., 100 A. P.” does not add up to the 360 total
given. However the 360 total has been used in the Carried forward
sub-total.
Page 274, Derbyshire, the out of sequence date 1786 following 1787
has been left as printed.
Page 281, in the last entry for Hertfordshire, “Layston and Widdial”,
“Date of Act” and “Date of Award” have been left blank, as printed.