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GCSE History · key term
A farmer who pays rent to use land owned by someone else.
Used by OCR
Paper 3
Revise: Impacts and Reactions to the DissolutionTenant farmers who had rented monastic land now faced new landlords; some experienced higher rents or lost their land. The transfer of wealth to purchasers could therefore make life less secure for those already living and working on the estates.
Paper 1
A farmer who rents land from a landowner rather than owning it.
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Landowners also evicted small tenant farmers to reorganise their land for other crops. Eviction meant losing both a home and access to farmland.