Talk:Open-field system

message: I'm confused.  Why was putting fences around fields such a big deal? Josh Cherry 15:08, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a fundamental change to the property system - from common ownership to exclusive private ownership. It was a big social change as well, as it concentrated economic power in a relatively few people's hands. -- ChrisO 09:57, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I meant that it wasn't clear to me from the article why the need for large enclosed fields led to such sweeping economic and social changes.  If changes to agriculture required it, why not just build some fences and leave economic relations unchanged? Josh Cherry 23:44, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Early comments

message: An anon user added a link to http://www.explorebraunton.org suggesting that it would provide more information about Braunton. As yet, the page contains no information of any kind, however, it looks like it might be an 'official' (Devon CC) site, so it could prove useful in the future.
EdJogg (talk) 17:26, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Braunton 

message: Given that the open field system was the economic and agricultural system governing the lives of half the people in Europe for hundreds of years, I find it dubious that this article is deemed to be of "low importance."  Smallchief (talk  22:44, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: @ I graded low on the  importance to the Economics project scale because it may not be relevant to a modern economist or an understanding of economics.  However, you are probably right that it should be a mid, as it does add depth of understanding to economics.  Related articles are Enclosure which is at mid, and the more specific Inclosure Acts which is at low.Jonpatterns (talk) 12:12, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Low importance?

message: This section is inappropriate at this point. and could easily confuse. Allotment gardens have an entirely different, relatively modern, statutory origin, clearly explained by the National Allotment Garden Society on their site. Manninagh1958 (talk) 09:57, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree.  Unless someone raises objections in the next few days, I'll delete this section and put only a link into allotment gardens.Smallchief (talk  10:34, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Allotment Gardens

message: The numbers given for Elton, Cambridgeshire in this article seem to conflict with the numbers given in the article for Elton, here it's stated as 13 hides with a population of 500-600, in the Elton article it's stated as 28 hides with a population of 129-185.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.149.192.144 (talk) 23:30, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Conflicting Data in the Example

message: Answers 197.186.2.242 (talk) 19:02, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems that faced agriculture in europe under open field 

message: English 197.186.5.235 (talk) 09:45, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dictatorship in europe 

message: The article talks of the "rise of capitalism" with the invention of "the concept that land was a commodity that could be bought and sold" - even in the Middle Ages land was bought and sold in England and other European countries (as it has been in Roman times) and the Open Field system was far from universal. 2A02:C7C:E183:AC00:FC40:383D:A191:2435 (talk) 20:17, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article assumes the Marxist view of history is correct.