The ecology of enclosure : the effect of enclosure on society, farming and the environment in South Cambridgeshire, 1798-1850 / Shirley Wittering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wittering, Shirley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Windgather Press, [2013]

Summary:

South Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has been cultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive population growth had resulted in an enormous increase in the demand for food, which in turn led to enclosure. But this desire to plough every available piece of land resulted in the destruction of many valuable and distinctive habitats that had existed for centuries. The Ecology of Enclosure breaks new ground in comparing the effect of Parliamentary Enclosure with the findings of the enthusiastic 'Botanisers' from Cambri

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; On weights, measures, money and areas; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Character of South Cambridgeshire; Chapter 2: The Village Community before Enclosure; Chapter 3: Farming before Enclosure; Chapter 4: The Enclosure Process; Chapter 5: Designing the New Landscape; Chapter 6: Post-enclosure Agriculture; Chapter 7: The Post-enclosure Community; Chapter 8: The Environmental Consequences of Enclosure; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Evidence for manorial sheep flocks before enclosure

Appendix 2: Growing Sanfoin 22.1.1789Appendix 3: List of those Assenting, Dissenting or Neutral; Appendix 4: Size and nature of moors or commons; Appendix 5: CRO 292/02-36 Fowlmere Petition 1845; Appendix 6: Flora; Appendix 7: Pampisford Hall, date of planting of trees; Appendix 8: CUL DOC 652-113. Stinting rules; Appendix 9: Average number of people per house from the censuses; Bibliography

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781909686021

1909686026

9781909686007

190968600X