Village green
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A village green is a common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other animals, often at the edge of a
Chipperfield, Hertfordshire village green and war memorial
New Haven Green, c. 1919
Finchingfield village green
A village green in Zuidlaren, Netherlands
Common land
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Common land is collective 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. A person who has a right in
Village green
…A village green is a common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other animals…
Poohsticks Bridge in Ashdown Forest, an area of common land
Modern-day pannage, or common of mast, in the New Forest
Snake's head fritillary, North Meadow, Cricklade. This is grazed as Lammas common land.
View of the Scafell massif from Yewbarrow, Wasdale, Cumbria. In the valley bottom are older enclosures and higher up on the fell-side are later enclosures on poorer land with substantial walls following boundary lines regardless of terrain. Above those is the unenclosed common land.