Common Land In England
Around 3% of the land area of England is recognised as common land. On this website you will find a maintained and searchable database of registered parcels of common land in England.
Search by village or parish name, or find all common land in a specific county. You can also list types of common land, as well as Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
Common Land In England
The website contains land records for nearly all parcels of registered common land in England, with additional data including location, area, extent of rights etc. The information was assembled between 1982 and 1993 as part of the biological survey of common land
The data powering the database is sourced from the government's DEFRA website. For information about UK Government property and land visit government buildings.
Village Greens
Town and village greens originate in customary law, where long-standing recreational use of land by the local inhabitants came to be recognised and protected by the courts. Greens are areas of land where local people have for many years indulged in lawful sports and pastimes, which might include organised or informal games, picnics, fetes, dog walking and similar activities. A green can be in private ownership but many greens are owned or maintained by town and parish councils.
Examples of Common Land
| Name | District | County | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulldyke Lane | South Holland | Lincolnshire | Located south of B1165 between Tydd St. Mary and Tydd St. James |
| West Stones | Bradford | West Yorkshire | Located south of Shaw, on the west edge of Oxenhope. |
| Thwaite Common | North Norfolk | Norfolk | Located north of Erpingham, 8 km WNW of North Walsham. |
| Island in River Wye at Symonds Yat. | South Herefordshire | Hereford/Worcester | Located on River Wye,S of Symonds Yat,1.5km SE of Gt.Doward |
| Wet Horse Fen | East Cambridgeshire | Cambridgeshire | Adjacent to Soham Lode, east of Soham and N.N.W. of Newmarket. |
| Berkhamsted Common (part) | Dacorum | Hertfordshire | Lying 1.25 kms west of Potten End, on outskirts of Berkhamsted. |
| Common Land | Harrogate | North Yorkshire | Wood located along minor road between Galphay and Grantley. |
| Land in parish of Sevenhampton | Cotswold | Gloucestershire | Located in Sevenhampton, 8.5 km east of Cheltenham. |
| Carstone Pit | Kings Lynn & W.Norf | Norfolk | Located 1.1 km east of Blackborough End, 8 km SE of King's Lynn |
| Gouthwaite Moor and Heathfield Moor | Harrogate | North Yorkshire | Moorland W of Gouthwaite Reservoir, 3.75km NW of Pateley Bridge |