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Britain’s modern agricultural revolution began about 1950, and reached its height in the 70s and 80s. Three major trends began to reinforce each other at the start of the postwar period, with disastrous results for the comfortable old Enclosure era hedgerow landscape. First, mechanisation finally reached out beyond single or linked pairs of farm operations...