Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Elizabethan Society and Exploration.
The practice of replacing labour-intensive arable crop farming with sheep grazing by fencing off common land, often incentivised by high wool prices.
Enclosure appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for Early Elizabethan England, especially Elizabethan Society and Exploration and The Problem of the Poor.
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