What do we call the field system where land is divided into strips?

The story behind the answer

In medieval villages, most arable land lay in two or three great fields that were not fenced, but subdivided into long, narrow strips. Each household held scattered strips, ensuring shared access to good and poor soils, and decisions about sowing, fallow, and grazing were made communally; after harvest, animals grazed the stubble across the open expanse.

Common in medieval Europe, especially England. It often paired with two- or three-field rotation and created ridge-and-furrow patterns. Cooperation and risk-sharing were strengths, but communal rules curbed innovation. From the 16th–19th centuries, enclosure replaced it with hedged, consolidated farms—boosting yields but upending village life.