A scheme was finally agreed in 1873 and a Parliamentary Enclosure Act was passed for the parish.

Before its Enclosure Act of 1762 Cressbrook did not exist.

An Enclosure Act of 1881 laid the way for the development of modern Wibsey.

They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts.

Wigmore was one of the first areas in England to have an Enclosure Act.

An Enclosure Act was passed in 1815, under which the area was extensively drained.

The Enclosure Acts ended the system of open farming on common land.

The Enclosure Act of 1845 allowed the city to take 1,068 acres (4.3 km2) of the Clay fields.

But the idea that artists have property rights didn't arrive with the Enclosure Act.

The Enclosure Act that established the park, dating from 1770, allows townspeople to graze their sheep there.