Commons and Common Fields: Or the History and Policy of the Laws Relating, to Commons and Enclosures in England; Being the Yorke Prize Essay of the University, of Cambridge for the Year 1886 (Classic Reprint)
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
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- Title
- Commons and Common Fields: Or the History and Policy of the Laws Relating, to Commons and Enclosures in England; Being the Yorke Prize Essay of the University, of Cambridge for the Year 1886 (Classic Reprint)
- Author
- Thomas Edward Scrutton
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- HRD
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0331398338
- ISBN 13
- 9780331398335
- Item weight
- 539 grams
Explore the history and law behind England’s commons and enclosures
This authoritative Yorke Prize essay traces how common fields, pasture rights, and enclosure shaped agriculture, land use, and public access through centuries of change.
The work blends legal history with social and economic analysis. It explains how rights of common arose with the manor system, how enclosure transformed farming, and why open spaces matter for communities today. While grounded in archival sources, it speaks to readers interested in land, policy, and England’s rural evolution.- Learn how medieval and early modern laws formed the basis for today’s open spaces and land rights
- See the interplay between agriculture, population growth, and public access to land
- Understand the long arc from common fields to modern policy debates about open spaces
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