Over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the English countryside changed dramatically.’ Explain.

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Abhishek Mishra

2 years ago

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.

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