Enlclosures

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  • Created by: samiyahhh
  • Created on: 04-03-18 20:00

Enclosures

Enclosure - the practice of individual landowners fencing off land for profitable sheep rearing - was being blamed for poverty in rural areas. This could lead farming beng forced off their land and the removal of the common areas where villagers could graze their animals. Many people associated enclosure with greed and selfishness, because it meant ordinary people had less land on which

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