Information about the Loders inclosure is scarce and oddly there are no newspaper notices referring to it. The inclosure seems to have followed on quickly after the sale of ‘the manor or reputed manor’ in 1817 following the death of its previous owner Mr Richard Travers. Unusually from this we know exactly the state of the Manor. There was only one remaining common arable field of 161 acres in the occupation of just four tenants. The waste was a mere 51 acres given over to Furze but with 50 cow leases and over thee hundred acres of meadow and pasture. It is doubtful that this constituted the whole of the parish but it is probable that until it had been sold there were insufficient landowners by number and value to get a bill of inclosure through parliament.

The bill for inclosure was introduced and passed in 1818 and the inclosure was completed by 1821. There are surprisingly few entries relating to it. In April he,

and at the beginning of June he was working on the draft award, and later in the month attended the meeting where presumably the final award was made.

In July he “made Loder rate”: this was almost certainly the rate that each proprietor had to pay for the construction of the private roads [1]. In the same month he was

Note the plural ‘maps’. A meeting put off at the beginning of August was called on the 16^th around which time he got paid.

His last visit was on the 22^nd August. Presumably there were two Lords of the Manor at this time.

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