... an order of importance, as each and every one of these factors contributed to Britains ability and facility to industrialise - there existed a fertile soil in which the seed of industrialisation could grow. English agriculture between the late seventeenth century and mid nineteenth century is commonly regarded as a huge success with respect to the economy as a whole. Some believe that agriculture should be sufficiently developed so that there is a release in labour and resources for modern industry to transpire. Others believe that a revolution in farming techniques is an essential prerequisite to the modernisation of manufacturing and transport industries. The British Agrarian Revolution is associated with the consequent process of industrialisation in that firstly, it involved farming on a large scale instead of the medieval open fields cultivated in strips by peasants; secondly, arable farming increased in this period, over heaths and commons and there was ...

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