One statement below about how peasants held their land in a manor village is false. Which one is it?
Each household farmed one enclosed farm surrounded by its own hedges.✓Correct answer
A household's land lay in narrow strips scattered across the large fields.
Households worked their strips alongside the strips of their neighbours.
Holdings were held by the custom of the manor rather than owned outright.
Explanation
Open-field villages divided the arable into strips and gave every household a share of both good and poor ground in different parts of the fields, so nobody farmed one compact block of land. The enclosed farm ringed by hedges belongs to later centuries, when holdings were consolidated and fenced in, which is exactly why it is such a tempting picture to carry back into the medieval village.