It has probably changed hands a few times since. In this case, there was no planning for permanence in the locations of those buildings. No one wanted to make of it a permanent home. Natural land or undeveloped land owes its permanence to its association with environment and time. It has reached a degree of balance and is stable.
Agricultural land is, however, in a different category.
Man makes his moves and Nature sooner or later signifies approval or disapproval. Farmers of the stable agriculture of the old world are not so much affected by these problems of individual decision. They know the solutions very often, and act on them without even being aware of the problems which were ironed out for them centuries before. No doubt there were periods of trial and error, periods when changes were violent and often disastrous, but as farming lore and tribal laws were handed down from father to son for generations than ran into centuries, traditions hardened and origins became blurred. No doubt there were many failures worse in their effect than the droughts, flood and fires we know, and famine wiped out whole communities before agricultural man in Europe mastered his environment.