... the works of the post-structuralist historical geographers e.g. S. Daniels. The first part of this essay is concerned with how factors of the Agricultural Revolution directly affected the nature of rural class relations and the second part focuses on how the landscapes of that period reflected the new social relations that were formed, particularly of how the powerful chose to highlight their dominance and how this accentuation further distanced the classes. The agricultural revolution was characterised by an improvement in three main areas: agricultural techniques (e.g. crop rotations, selective breeding, improved implements, liming etc.): institutional arrangements (e.g. law modification to facilitate change to a nationwide feeling of a 'spirit of improvement') and structural elements (e.g. dissolution of open fields, enclosure of commons and wastes, farm consolidation, extension of arable land).i These enhancements all helped to contribute to a changing rural way of life due to the commercialisation of agriculture. The ways in ...

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