Upper Common / Lower Common

Common land located in Bucklebury, Newbury, Berkshire.

Information

Common E to W across Bucklebury;Westrop Green to Acres Farm.

Ownership

Not disputed. There are 118 claims to rights of access and94 easements in respect of water supply pipes. There are also claims to gravel, timber, piscary and leaf mould when granted by the Lord of the Manor.

Owned by one private owner.

Final.Owner registered by application.

Rights

Sheep, cattle, horses, pigs, geese and goats.

Estovers (131)

Rights entries disputed and modified. Estovers givenas 'wooding rights to take timber for repairs, to top all pollards usually topped, to have hedgebote, firebote and to take furze and bracken'.

Features

  • Minor roads
  • Footpaths
  • Bridleways

Other Notes

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - North Wessex Downs

This site is a proposed SSSI.

Subject to a scheme of regulation made byBradfield Rural District Council, (2/7/29), under the Commons Act 1899.

 

Land Data

Common Land Name Upper Common / Lower Common
County Berkshire
District Newbury
Parish Bucklebury
TVG Reg # 28
Authority Berkshire
Area 315.61 hectares / 779.89 acres
Ordnance Survey Sheet # 174
OS 100km Grid Square SU56
Easting 4555
Northing 1690
OS Grid Ref 455500,169000
Min Contour 80
Max Contour 135
Median Elevation

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Data recorded July, 1984.

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