Shropshire Routes to Roots

6. Tithe records

By the time of the tithe map of 1841, we can see how the landscape of land ownership had changed following the enclosure of the open-fields and common:

Landowners - Sheinton Tithe Map 1839 [Reproduced with kind permission of T.G.Hill]

Also how the occupiers were fewer in number and held their land in almost equivalent size blocks:

Occupiers - Sheinton 1839 [Reproduced with kind permission of T.G.Hill]

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