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common land

NOUN
  1. a pasture subject to common use

How To Use common land In A Sentence

  • Landowners in Winterbourne Monkton had an Act of Parliament passed in 1813 to enable them to enclose common land in the parish.
  • This landscape of scattered pines with a dense groundcover including gallberry is one of the most common landscapes in Florida.
  • The first measures to divide the common lands among local communities were taken in the late 1780s.
  • Section 1 provides that, ‘There shall be registered… land… which is common land or a town or village green ’, and rights of common over such land.
  • The provision was only intended to make it an offence to drive motors on footpaths or bridleways, such as ridgeways or ways across common land.
  • Mr Thompson said his main concern was that the farmers who usually grazed their cattle on the common land were running out of feed.
  • common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community
  • People who live on the village's Main Street and part of York Road will be charged to access the grassed areas of common land that front their homes.
  • Most of the standing and merchantable timber in Oldham was found on the private holdings as opposed to the common lands, which were largely moorland.
  • The project involves large-scale displacement of farmers and destruction of farmland, forests and common lands.
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