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English Hedges
- vearwhershuh 7y agoThe Enclosure Movement is worth reading about. People tend to think of the Anglo-Saxon world as having been individualistic (in theory, and oligarchic in practice) since time immemorial, but it was much more communal until relatively recently.
- tantalor 7y ago"the familiar checkerboard pattern" What is this referring to?
- jfk13 7y agoI think "patchwork" is often a better term than "checkerboard", as things are rarely straight and regular, but I guess it's referring to sights like this: https://www.picturesofengland.com/England/tour/Aerial_Images_of_England/pictures/1053537 https://www.picturesofengland.com/England/tour/Aerial_Images...
- maxbaines 7y agoExactly!