Map of allotments 27-41 Kennedy Gardens on Hosey Hill
The Gardens of Hosey date back to 1815 when ‘commons waste’ was mapped-out and ‘allotted’ to the families of the poor of the district, the menfolk of whom had fought for Britain in the Napoleonic wars – penniless men came home to starving families. Enclosure of commons waste was being established in rural areas throughout the country at this time, and represents the first of many enclosure acts established through agreements between the Crown and manorial landowners between that time and the end of the nineteenth century.
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