In South Zeal in Devon burgage plots were known as "borough acres".
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In towns like Burford and Chipping Campden in Oxfordshire, Bromyard in Herefordshire, and Cricklade in Wiltshire, the property on the road frontage extends in a very long garden plot behind the dwelling even today, as English property boundaries have remained very stable.
Unlike a tenement entry to private property, known as a "close", a vennel was a public way leading from a typical high street to the open ground beyond the burgage plots.
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