![]() Evidence for a boundary of Enclosure Act land can be seen today as the bank with old trees (oaks and hawthorns) on the west side of Dickerson’s Pit in Milton Country Park.įollowing Enclosure, several farmers who were tenant farmers, particularly the copyholders of the manor, gradually improved their income over expenditure so that they could buy land and become freeholders. The Enclosure Act award for Milton was initiated by the lord of the manor and the Rector of All Saints’ and the award was executed on the 8 th July 1802. This reorganisation of land by the manor was legally carried out in relation to the Enclosure Act of Parliament. ![]() View of Church Lane at around 1900 At the beginning of the 19 th century, manorial land was reviewed with some divided into separate plots with a house for tenant farmers of the manor, these were the copyholders with 30 Fen Road being one of these. ![]()
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