This was one of the best books I read last year and some of the most compelling written and researched non-fiction I have cross paths with in a long time. This page along blew my mind for at least …| Three Acres And A Cow
This song was found in the Bristol Radical History pamphlet (#6) ‘The Life and Times of Warren James’ about the Forest of Dean enclosures: Arouse ye, free miners, who delve in old Dean,and all ye freeholders with rights o’er its green,‘Tis time to be stirring for danger is nigh;and if ye bestir not, you’ll find […]| Three Acres And A Cow
compiled by Barry Thomas of the Melbourne Footpaths Group Thomas Dugmore (1739 – 1820)Dugmore kept the Bull’s Head public house on Potter Street and attacked the enclosure of Melbourne parish with its effects on public roads and paths in an amazing pamphlet written in 1800. He took Lord Melbourne to court when he closed a […]| Three Acres And A Cow
In 1866, Lord Brownlow of Ashridge House tried to enclose a third of Berkhamsted Common by putting in iron fences “without any openings and entirely regardless of public rights of way”. But the Commons Preservation Society got together a bunch of workmen and labourers to come up on a special midnight train from London and […]| Three Acres And A Cow
Epping Forest (just outside London) was in the process of being Enclosed and made private in the 19th century, but a campaign of mass trespass forced the government to place it in common hands. The…| Three Acres And A Cow