Allotments of from 20 to 40 acres to eleven other allottees.
Allotments of from 10 to 20 acres to twelve allottees.
Allotments of from 12 perches to 9 acres to seventy-nine allottees.
Twenty-four of these smaller allotments (including six of less than 2 acres) are given in lieu of open field property; the remaining fifty-five are given in compensation for common rights of some sort or other.
Sixty-six cottages appear as entitling their owners to compensation.[501] Of these 66, 16 belong to Henry Bullock and 8 to Sir William Gibbons, and the remaining 42 to 38 different owners. The allotments to cottages vary from a quarter of an acre (John Merrick) to over an acre (Anne Higgs). The owners of cottage commons only had their allotments separately and not in common.
APPENDIX A (11)
Wakefield, Yorks.—Enclosure Act, 1793
Area.—2300 acres ‘or thereabouts.’
Nature of Ground.—Open Common Fields, Ings, Commons, Waste Grounds, within the townships of Wakefield, Stanley, Wrenthorpe, Alverthorpe, and Thornes.
Parliamentary Proceedings.—January 23, 1793.—Petition from several owners and proprietors for enclosure. Leave given to prepare bill. January 28, Wilberforce presented it; February 18, it was committed to Wilberforce, Duncombe and others.