Agricultural Revolution

[snorkmaiden]

Can anyone remember what the system was called where a family was allocated a strip of land to grow their own veg?

[jake-the-peg]

I think it was called strip farming

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/medieval_ farming1.htm

They might have a number of strips in big communal fields which would be ploughed by the village plough and oxen team.

There was a basic crop rotation system so one big communal field might be fallow one year whils another grew wheat etc. So people would have a strip on each.

[Lil O'lady]

Sometimes also called the three-field system cos there were usually 3 massive fields around the village, divided into strips for each family.

[paddywak]

laxton, Nottinghamshire still practices the system on some of the local fields this link explains about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxton,_Nottingha mshire

[snorkmaiden]

Thanks for all your replies, which have solved the problem. It's been nagging away at me for ages, and school history lessons are in the dim and distant past! Thanks again.

[snorkmaiden]

Thanks Steve.5. :)

[dundurn]

Sorry to post so late but I've been on hols - the Scottish runrig system was very similar - one of the advantages (supposedly) in the system was that the strips were rotated between families either on a rota system or allocated by lots. This meant that if you were given a less fertile strip you weren't stuck with it forever.