How did the enclosure of public land change the English way of life in the 18th century?

Loss of common land for grazing livestock made life harder for many small farmers, while big landowners were able to reorganise (and often extend) their holdings to make them more profitable and easier to manage. Enclosure was once considered key to the growth of agricultural output (the "Agricultural Revolution"), but is now widely considered less fundamental to rural progress. It may nevertheless have contributed to migration from town to country, though rural population continued to rise (far less quickly than population generally) until the mid-19th century.