Question

what was common land or commons? (2 marks)

Answer 1

Common land is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel

Answer 2

The land which is enclosed by big farmers by building hedges around their land to separate it from that of others . is called enclosed land .