Answers to some of your question (1) might be found in John and Barbara
Hammond's "The Village Labourer 1760-1832",
published in 1911. See especially the chapters The Village Before
Enclosure, The Village After Enclosure, and the footnote
suggestions to government reports. [In my very skimpy scanning I did see
the suggestion that rural population growth was
very slow at the time, preventing exhaustion of natural resources.]
A downloadable pdf (not terribly easy to read, though) can be found on
the Internet Archive at
<http://archive.org/details/cu31924032427019>
- Bill
On 05/19/2013 4:24 AM, Gar Lipow wrote:
I'm interested in two related question on UK enclosure of the
> commons.
>
> 1) How well were the commons managed prior to enclosure? Was the
> grazing land being exhausted or was it preserved through limitations
> on use? What about forest a nd woods and wood lots used as sources
> of firewood? Was firewood harvested from the same woods generation
> after generation, or were the wood lots being exhausted? What are
> the best sources on this? Is there controversy or is the story I
> hear that the commons were successful in preserving resources across
> generations widely agreed on?
>
> 2) After enclosure to what extent was grazing land maintained and to
> what extent exhausted? And (for my purposes, more imortantly) to
> what extent were wooded areas that had been preserved as sources of
> fuel for generations exhausted, sometimes just for the wood,
> sometimes to expand grazing land to raise more sheep and cattle?
>
> What are the most rigorous works that answer these question?. If
> there is a serious controversy, what are the best works on both
> sides? I
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