Enclosure in the Southern Counties, 1700-1900

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>The purpose of this study was to identify the amounts and types of land affected by both parliamentary and non-parliamentary enclosure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The dataset represents a small portion of the data collected by the &lt;i&gt;National Enclosure Project&lt;/i&gt; since 1972. It covers non-Parliamentary formal agreements in Dorset, Hampshire, East Sussex, West Sussex and Wiltshire; and Parliamentary enclosures in Hampshire and West Sussex. The database includes abstracts of all surviving formal agreements.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>The main topics are land type; acreages; landowners; commissioners.