We live in a very ancient landscape, but it has not always looked the way it looks today.

In most of Oxfordshire the pattern of fields, hedges and roads was re-drawn afresh during the period when Parliamentary enclosure was wiping out the medieval pattern of open fields with their groups of strips in ridge and furrow. Some parishes had been enclosed and became largely deserted after the Black Death and through the 15th and 16th centuries, and in some places the farmers agreed between themselves to enclose some or all of their open-field land.

Join Deborah Hayter to discover how the long-drawn out processes of enclosure gave us the hedged landscape of fields that we see today.

Tickets cost £5 and are available online via Eventbrite (booking fee applies) or at the Museum shop.

£5