Inclosure acts

The inclosure acts[a] created legal property rights to land previously held in common in England and Wales, particularly open fields and common land. Between 1604 and 1914 over 5,200 individual acts enclosing public land were passed, affecting 28,000 km2.[2]

  1. ^ Staff (2024). "Enclosure (Inclosure)". Thomson Reuters Practical law. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  2. ^ "Enclosing the Land". www.parliament.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2013.


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