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The Enclosure Acts placed common land into individual ownership and removed the rights of local people to use the land as they had previously.
Under the Enclosure Acts of the 18th century, the land was awarded to the Viscount of Dudley and Ward, to whom an annual cottage rent was then due, even by the earliest nailors who had been squatters.