Sentence examples for land enclosed from inspiring English sources
The old network of traditional stopping places has been dug and ditched, the common land enclosed, and no space has been left for the willfully unhoused.
Within two weeks, all that was left of the Manor House Motel was a plot of flat land enclosed by a chain-link fence.
Russian Poland, the westernmost part of the Russian Empire, was a thick tongue of land enclosed to the north by East Prussia, to the west by German Poland (Poznania) and by Silesia, and to the south by Austrian Poland (Galicia).
It is to be built on the site of an army barracks on flat land enclosed by a bend in the Tiber across from the 1960 Olympics complex (designed by Pier Luigi Nervi) and not far from a new auditorium (by Renzo Piano).
In that ambitious project, pumping stations were able to drain the polder (land enclosed by embankments) within six months.
Turnips and cabbages were introduced, lands enclosed and marshes drained, lime was put down, roads built and woods planted.
In England, commons are often associated with rural agrarian land, mentally welded to the 18th- and 19th-century "enclosure of the commons", when, as Simon Fairlie writes, "between 1760 and 1870, about 7 million acres (about one sixth the area of England) were changed, by some 4,000 acts of parliament, from common land to enclosed land".
Over the next 200 years Dorset's population grew substantially and additional land was enclosed for farming to provide the extra food required.
Initially serving to compensate for the loss of common rights after common land was enclosed in 1802, it was held in trust until 1889 when ownership passed to Bournemouth Corporation and the land became five public parks: King's Park, Queen's Park, Meyrick Park, Seafield Gardens and Redhill Common.
The land was enclosed and drained, industries developed, and woods were planted.
Meat signified social inequality - only the rich could afford it - as more and more land was enclosed for pasture so the privileged could indulge themselves.
