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Lot Meads

In: Landscape History and Rural Society in Southern England

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  • Eric L. Jones

    (University of Buckingham)

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The character and history of institutional change is expounded via lot meads, an overlooked category of communal farming. Haying rights in lot meads were allocated by the drawing of lots. A prime example was Yarnton Mead near Oxford, where first-hand experience of the last stage of a possibly Anglo-Saxon system is detailed. Two further personal observations of communal allocation are then introduced, one in Wiltshire, the other in Devon. An exercise was undertaken to assess the history of a sample of one hundred lot meads, followed by an investigation of Gloucestershire cases. It suggests their history was not always continuous and that communal allocation may have been selected or given up according to local or temporary circumstances. Reasons are put forward why river meadows may have fallen in relative value over recent centuries, adding to pressures for the cessation of communal occupation.

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  • Eric L. Jones, 2021. "Lot Meads," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Landscape History and Rural Society in Southern England, chapter 0, pages 79-99, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-68616-1_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-68616-1_7
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