Enclosure involved consolidating land holdings and removing common rights. It allowed landowners to fence off land and farm more efficiently, increasing production of milk, meat and other goods. While some could now afford improvements, others struggled to pay for fences and homes without common land access, though livestock health improved without disease transmission on open roads and fields.

1. History Department History Department FILL IN THE BLANK SPACES, USING THE RED WORDS BELOW PLEASE…. Enclosure is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. Not everyone will be able to _ _ _ _ _ _ to pay for new fences, farmhouses and _ _ _ _ _. However people will be able to _ _ _ _ _ healthier animals because they will no longer _ _ _ with diseased ones on the _ _ _ _ _ _. This will lead to more milk and _ _ _ _ being produced. There will also be more land, because the common land, meadows ,` _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and wasteland will be shared out. woodland expensive breed common meat afford roads mix STARTER!

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3. History Department History Department 1.What is this invention? 2.What benefits over a traditional vacuum cleaner does it give us? 3.Does it save us time , or money – or both? Why?

4. History Department History Department Your name 21 st September 2004 Title:- What were the effects of enclosure?

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6. History Department History Department COPY OUT, AND ANSWER, THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS PLEASE. 1.HOW WOULD LAND OWNERS HAVE BENEFITED FROM ENCLOSURE? 2.HOW WOULD THE GENERAL PUBLIC BENEFIT FROM ENCLOSURE?

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10. History Department History Department Copy out the text following ‘new machines’, and also this diagram of the Seed Drill invented by Jethro Tull.