Assarting - Wikipedia
WEBAssarting is the act of uprooting all trees from a forested area for various purposes, such as farming or settlement. It was a common practice in medieval England and France, and it has legal, historical and environmental implications.
Introduction: medieval fields and the landscape - Oxford Academic
WEBGray’s detailed study of the whole of England (1915) classified fields into several main types. The two- and three-field arrangement, found by Gray to occur primarily in the Midlands, became known as the ‘Midland system’. Bishop proposed an assarting mechanism to explain the formation of intermixed fields in 1935–6.
A medieval woodland manor: Hanley Castle, Worcestershire
WEBJun 30, 2009 — Demesne and tenant land was expanded by assarting in the twelfth century, followed by some retrenchment and a gradual decline from the early fourteenth. The assarting led to a new demesne and the growth of settlement in the west of the manor, reinforcing and adding to the pattern of dispersed hamlets, but …
Medieval enclosed field system and earlier remains at Sheffield ...
WEBThe enclosed field systems are evidence of medieval assarting, the process whereby patches of common land were cleared and farmed after the Norman Conquest. There is a similar block of assarted land some 500m to the north west at Lawrence Field where it is associated with two long house structures, one of which is dated to the 11th or 12th century.
Medieval Assarting Hamlets in Bilsdale, North-East Yorkshire
WEBThe causes and the extent of economic change in medieval England remain matters of controversy. In the quest to understand the dynamics of the economy, historians have …
Medieval rural settlement in north-east England - Archaeology …
WEBThere was both seigneurial planning and unrestricted assarting by substantial freeholders, but no piecemeal peasant assarting. Robin Daniels (33-57) contributes 'Kilton: a survey of a moorland fringe township', in which air photography, fieldwork and excavation, and map research identified at least four major phases of landscape development ...
Assart - Oxford Reference
WEBAssart was a term for land cleared from the forest for cultivation or settlement in medieval England. Learn more about the origin, extent and significance of assarting from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology.
MNA112962 | National Trust Heritage Records
WEBThe general opinion is that these enclosures and house remains are evidence of medieval assarting, the process whereby patches of common land were cleared and farmed after the Norman Conquest. There is a similar block of assarted land in Lawrence Field (across the valley) which is associated with two long house structures, one of which is dated ...
WEBAssarting had an important impact on the countryside of medieval England, but assarts and their economic and political ramifications have largely been neglected by historians. This study of assarting provides a broad examination of the Pipe Roll evidence concerning assarts on royal lands in England between 1154 and 1189, making a contribution
Medieval Assarting Hamlets in Bilsdale, North-East Yorkshire
WEBNov 20, 2013 — Medieval Assarting Hamlets in Bilsdale, North-East Yorkshire. Northern History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 269-279.
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