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4 unusual facts about Inclosure Acts


Attempts to ban football games

The Enclosure Acts placed common land into individual ownership and removed the rights of local people to use the land as they had previously.

Martock

In 1810 1,025 acres of common land were enclosed as a result of the Inclosure Acts.

Middlezoy

On 1800 1,100 acres of common land were enclosed as a result of the Inclosure Acts.

Show jumping

Until the Inclosure Acts, which came into force in England in the 18th century, there had been little need for horses to jump fences routinely, but with this act of Parliament came new challenges for those who followed fox hounds.



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