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Agricultural Revolution

Can anyone remember what the system was called where a family was allocated a strip of land to grow their own veg?

snorkmaiden Tue 17/06/08 14:05

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Steve.5
Tue 17/06/08
15:37

The Peasant economy comes to mind.

jake-the-peg
Tue 17/06/08
15:50

I think it was called strip farming

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_ farming1.htm

They might have a number of strips in big communal fields which would be ploughed by the village plough and oxen team.

There was a basic crop rotation system so one big communal field might be fallow one year whils another grew wheat etc. So people would have a strip on each.

Steve.5
Tue 17/06/08
16:19

Snorkmaiden.

Strip farming is the correct term that was used. I only gave you what it created.

In effect the time you are concerned about was called The Open Field System, which jake has correctly described the dynamics of it.

The Agriculture Revolution came about during the Industrial Revolution, which saw improvements in farming techniques, fertilisers, drainage & the threshing machine amongst others.

Hope this helps

Lil O'lady
Tue 17/06/08
19:31

Sometimes also called the three-field system cos there were usually 3 massive fields around the village, divided into strips for each family.

paddywak
Tue 17/06/08
22:46

laxton, Nottinghamshire still practices the system on some of the local fields this link explains about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxton,_Nottingha mshire

snorkmaiden
Wed 18/06/08
12:47

Question Author

Thanks for all your replies, which have solved the problem. It's been nagging away at me for ages, and school history lessons are in the dim and distant past! Thanks again.

Steve.5
Wed 18/06/08
22:16

Maiden any time you need a helping hand, just get in touch on AB I teach the subject @ GCSE & A Level

snorkmaiden
Fri 20/06/08
10:08

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Thanks Steve.5. :)

dundurn
Tue 24/06/08
16:53

Sorry to post so late but I've been on hols - the Scottish runrig system was very similar - one of the advantages (supposedly) in the system was that the strips were rotated between families either on a rota system or allocated by lots. This meant that if you were given a less fertile strip you weren't stuck with it forever.

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