Today, when we speak of Beverly Common, we are referring to the park across Essex Street from the library. In colonial times and into the 19th century, this land was known as the Training Ground and ...

Three parcels of land on Dartmoor have been given protection as common land, meaning people are free to walk there. Eighty five acres (34.4 hectares) of land near Blackdown Common at Mary Tavy have ...

But in recent years, farmers whose animals graze on common land, or commoners as they are known, have been having a hard time. They have been blamed by environmental watchdogs for poor land management ...

Let's begin with a brief history of commons. These didn't start out officially as common land; instead there was an informal system where they were treated as such. The land was almost always held by ...

Farmers who graze common land in England could receive backdated farm subsidy payments running into millions of pounds. Defra changed the rule on how CAP payments will be made on commons after farmers ...

Do you have a problem with herbage? Or perhaps turbary is causing you some discomfort. These are actually types of rights of common, which have existed since the Middle Ages. Recently we looked at ...