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An explanation of the dominant factors that shaped recreation before 1800
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An explanation of the dominant factors that shaped recreation before 1800 Before 1800,there were a number of different aspects that shaped recreation. Among them were 'attitudes to sport' and 'recreation'. Attitudes to sport and recreation changed vastly through the last fifty years of the nineteenth century. The seasons and countryside no longer influenced the recreational activities for most people, although the gentry (leisured class) continued to hunt, fish, and shoot as generations prior to them had done. The gentry had often owned the land which gave them the necessity of time and space-which was absolutely essential for recreation. Hunting, race meetings and estate cricket matches in the countryside had commenced as they had before 1800. Sport played a special role of a long established tradition of estate/rural life. The lord of manor was master of his own individual domain, and also the local activities based around it. The local of squire was...
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