HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -This movement began in the 12th century but proliferated in the 18th and 19th centuries. Between 1730 and 1839, Parliament passed over 4, 000 enclosure bills. By the end of the 19th century, 30% of England’s land was privatized. Many farmers were displaced by these enclosures and had to head to cities to find work.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Enclosure Acts A series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country, creating legal property rights to land that was previously considered common. Between 1604 and 1914, over 5, 200 individual acts were put into place, enclosing 6.8 million acres.

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.