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Common land is collective land (sometimes only open to those whose nation governs the land) in which all persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.[1]
A person who has a right in, or over, common land jointly with another or others is usually called a commoner.[2]
In Great Britain, common land or former common land is usually referred to as a common; for instance, Clapham Common and Mungrisdale Common. Due to enclosure, the extent of common land is now much reduced from the hundreds of square kilometres that existed until the 17th century, but a considerable amount of common land still exists, particularly in upland areas. There are over 8,000 registered commons in England alone.[3]
- ^ Natural England Archived 28 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Short, Christopher; Winter, Michael (September 1999). "The Problem of Common Land: Towards Stakeholder Governance". Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 42 (5): 616. Bibcode:1999JEPM...42..613S. doi:10.1080/09640569910911.
- ^ Short, Chris (1 July 2008). "The traditional commons of England and Wales in the twenty-first century: meeting new and old challenges" (PDF). International Journal of the Commons. 2 (2): 192. doi:10.18352/ijc.47.