The Impact of Enclosures between 1750 and 1830
Subjects / History / Agriculture, Industry and Transport 1700-1900
Before 1750, many English villages used the open field system of farming. Each village was surrounded by a number of large fields which were divided into strips. Each farmer had a number of strips. There were also areas of 'common land'. Some of the poorest people lived entirely on the common land. However, as England's population rose, more food was needed. The open field system was not productive enough. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, some farmers, supported by the government, began the process of enclosure. Enclosure meant fencing off the land so that only one farmer had the right to raise crops there. This made the land more productive, yet enclosure often had disastrous consequences for the poor. Enclosure, despite increasing productivity, resulted in increased poverty, rural depopulation and homelessness.
| Author: | Susan Edwards | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Peter McGowan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-227-5 |
| Video ISBN: | 978-1-84906-727-0 |
Chapters
- Support for and Opposition to Enclosure
- The Effects of Enclosure on the Rural Community
- The Impact of Enclosure on Agricultural Production
- The Limitations of the Open Field System and the Reasons for Change
- The Process of Enclosure: How and Where Enclosures were Carried Out
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
Titles
Chapters
- The change in appearance of the village and the surrounding area
- The enclosure movement, its social and economic effects on different classes of society
- The impact of enclosure on agriculture and on rural society
- The interdependence of agriculture, industrial developments and improved transport
- The process of enclosure
- The reasons for the need for more efficient farming methods including the French Wars
- The reasons for the need for more efficient farming methods including the increased population
- The reasons for the need for more efficient farming methods including the profit motive
- The reasons for the need for more efficient farming methods including the the growth of towns
- The relationship of government to the farming community
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