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Open field system in England
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Open field system in England
Enclosure XVIc
Tragedy of the commons
Decaying hedges mark the lines of the straight field boundaries created by the 1768 Parliamentary Act of Enclosure of Boldron Moor, County Durham.
William Forster Lloyd, 1833
Garrett Hardin, 1968
Domesday Book = "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states
A four-ox-team plough, circa 1330. The ploughman is using a mouldboard plough to cut through the heavy soils. A team could plough about one acre (0.4 ha) per day.
Generic map of a medieval manor, showing strip farming, from William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, 1923