Farmers:

I'm fascinated by the concept of land ownership and wonder if you could clear some things up for me.

Obviously, you own the land you farm. I wonder how you judge the extent of that ownership? As you know the earth is made up of floating plates of solid lighter rock (the crust), which are drifting on top of semi-liquid and liquid convecting mass of denser molten rock.

Now, let's say the crust under your farm is 40 miles thick. Do you own the crust for 40 miles beneath your fields, then a slice of the mantle and liquid core underneath that until you reach the nickel-iron core? Or do you just own the crust bit (as the mantle and core are constantly moving)? Or do you own down to the bedrock?

Was any of the land you currently farm taken during the Acts of Enclosure?