ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
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The land was divided into long, narrow strips that were not enclosed by fences or hedges.
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The land was not divided but worked communally as villages labored in large fields side by side.
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The land was divided into plots bounded by fences to farm more effectively.
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The land was not divided, so the lord of the manor could directly control agricultural techniques and introduce farming innovations.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it.
Detailed explanation-2: -Enclosure Movement. The process of consolidating small landholdings into a smaller number of larger farms in England during the eighteenth century. Crop Rotation. the system of growing a different crop in a field each year to preserve the fertility of the land.
Detailed explanation-3: -There is little doubt that enclosure greatly improved the agricultural productivity of farms from the late 18th century by bringing more land into effective agricultural use. It also brought considerable change to the local landscape.
Detailed explanation-4: -In England the movement for enclosure began in the 12th century and proceeded rapidly in the period 1450–1640, when the purpose was mainly to increase the amount of full-time pasturage available to manorial lords.