‘Wild, Barren and Frightful’ – Parliamentary Enclosure in an Upland County: Westmorland 1767–1890

‘Wild, Barren and Frightful’ – Parliamentary Enclosure in an Upland County: Westmorland 1767–1890

While there has been some research on the parliamentary enclosure of upland waste in England and Wales during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this topic still receives little attention in some recent accounts of parliamentary enclosure. Many aspects of the processes involved, and their impa...

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Published in:Rural history 2003-04, Vol.14 (1), p.21-38
Main Author: WHYTE, IAN
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Eighteenth Century
England
Great Britain
History
Land
Land Use
Landowners
Landscape
Nineteenth Century
Parliamentary bills
Parliamentary Systems
Rural history
Rural studies
United Kingdom
Waste Management
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Summary:While there has been some research on the parliamentary enclosure of upland waste in England and Wales during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this topic still receives little attention in some recent accounts of parliamentary enclosure. Many aspects of the processes involved, and their impact on the landscape, are also poorly understood. Much research has proceeded either at a very general level or on the basis of detailed individual case studies. This paper adopts an intermediate scale, focusing on the old county of Westmorland to examine the geographical and chronological patterns of enclosure before looking more closely at some of the problems involved in creating a new landscape.
ISSN:0956-7933
1474-0656