... passed 1750-1830 and were there to allot all common land to owners and set specific legal boundaries. In 1649, Loxley Chase was described as 'the herbage common and consiteth of great oake timber.' After the enclosure acts of the eighteenth century it was divided into regular walled enclosures and crossed by straight roads, which still remain today. Before the second half of the twentieth century most of the changes in the agricultural forms of the landscape were evolutionary, not revolutionary. But after the Second World War, some of the most dramatic changes have taken place. Firstly, the working horse has disappeared. So now oats, grown as fodder for horses, are not grown. Many features associated with horses and traditional farming have vanished, for example the fields no longer need to accommodate horse driven ploughs and turning circles. More significantly, in the search for efficiency, with new mechanical assistance, fields have gotten ...

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