WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Enclosure is the act of closing off areas of land with fences, hedges, or walls for private use. Before the Enclosure Movement, there were large areas of land that were communally owned in Europe, meaning that everyone within a community held ownership over those areas of land.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The enclosure movement had two important results. First, landowners experimented with new agricul-tural methods. Second, large landowners forced small farmers to become tenant farmers or to give up farming and move to the cities.