medieval-atlas/economic-development/294

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Enclosures John Adair's maps of the Lothians show that in that area, where enclosure was relatively advanced, few complexes exceeded about 250-300 acres (approximately 101-121 hectares). However, in such an area, where estates were relatively small and closely spaced, enclosure even on this modest scale could have profound impact on the rural landscape. We are fortunate in having Adair's surveys for parts of eastern Scotland for the last decade of the seventeenth century. These surveys are acknowledged to show settlement with reasonable accuracy. Thus they probably represent a fairly good picture of the state of enclosure. The actual extent of the enclosed lands may have been slight in relation to landscape, but when their areas are calculated as accurately as is possible from the scale of the map, which is not entirely precise, they do not seem unduly out of proportion in relation to other evidence. The map represents the distribution and approximate size of the enclosures as shown by Adair. Location map ,-__"\....__:::N~orth Berwick I cenfiJ 10 30 50 80 200 450 Hectares 24.174.1123.5197.6 494 1111.5Acres o o • Longniddry 0 • o 00 , Prestonpans • Tranent 0 " ,0 , --, , --, ,---- kms --- 0 4, 6 ? I I , ? , , I I I I I , , " 0 1 3 4 5 2miles ,,-- , / , -I "... \ '----,-/ Enclosures in East Lothian in the seventeenth century IOW 294