Description:This is a copy map drawn from the original 1794 enclosure map of Edingale and Croxall. The map shows field and property names and the leading landowners and tenants.
Enclosure maps and their accompanying awards are important sources for local, agricultural and economic history in the 18th and 19th centuries, and reflect a time when communities were experiencing significant change. The work was carried out by local surveyors appointed as Inclosure Commissioners. They made detailed maps on parchment, usually large in scale and highly accurate, showing the new landscape of fields, roads and adjacent buildings as affected by the Act. Most maps therefore do not show other pieces of land or buildings beyond the extent of the enclosure. New and existing access roads are shown making these documents an important source also for rights of way research.
This is one of a series of copies of archive maps from the Needwood Forest and south-eastern areas of Staffordshire drawn by Peter G. Stanley, F.I.C.E., F.C.I.W.E.M. of Edingale. As well as presenting all or most of the information on the original documents, these maps also include analysis of the information and other details about the parish or township concerned.