Over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the English countryside changed dramatically.’ Explain.
Earlier large parts of English countryside were open with no private ownership of land. Every year at a public meeting the strips of land were distributed among the villagers so that each villager got ‘ a mix of good and bad land. Apart from this, all villagers had access to common lands where they ‘ could pasture their cattle, collect fuel wood and fruits. It was only after the mid-eighteenth century’ that the Enclosure Movement began at a rapid pace. It changed the English landscape forever. It was the time when population in England was rising.