Enclosure was the radical change to the countryside which replaced the open field system of farming. Instead of open land there were fields with fences or hedges round them. The techniques for ...

a bigger enclosure of around nine hectare land a fortnight back. STR authorities said the enclosure has been designed in such a way that a prey entering it would not be able to escape. This will ...

Enclosure fencing off common land and handing it to private landowners has been going on in England since the 1200s. It increased substantially in the Tudor period, and then again with the ...