 The first of these, the St. Pancras Cemetery, was established in 1852.Enclosure also had an immediate effect upon agriculture, most of the former common lands being in a 'high state of cultivation' by 1817, but without careful husbandry, however, the soil became exhausted by the 1830s.Much of the land became hay meadow, and later it was subsumed in the general trend to suburban development.