Enclosure and the Rural Landscape of Merioneth in the Sixteenth Century

Post-Neolithic Vegetation Changes in the Western Rhinogau, Gwynedd, North-West Wales

“…Sixteenth-century encroachment on to the wastelands, with colonization of the moorland fringe, was directed from existing medieval farm holdings. The net result was a pattern of small, irregular fields mostly under private ownership (Thomas, 1964(Thomas, , 1965(Thomas, , 1967, which provides a marked contrast with the network of larger, more regular fields created by the nineteenth-century Parliamentary Enclosure Awards which was mostly the responsibility of estate landowners (Thomas,197I). PREVIOUS RESEARCH Godwin (1956 and established the standard Post-glacial vegetation chronology for the British Isles, which although regional as well as national in reference, has sometimes been applied uncritically to local areas.…”