Northamptonshire villagers attacked enclosure fencing and filled in drainage ditches as Parliamentary Enclosure Acts transformed the open-field landscape. The riots demonstrated the social cost of enclosure and the displacement of common rights.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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