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Common Land in Britain - A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Hardcover)
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Common Land in Britain - A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Hardcover)
Series: Garden and Landscape History
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The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in
Great Britain from the medieval period to present day. More than a
million hectares of Britain has the status of common land, most of
it consisting of semi-natural environments of mountain, moorland,
wetland or heath. Formerly much more extensive, common land was,
and in many places remains, an integral part of the pastoral
economy. Even where it is no longer used by farmers, it plays an
increasingly important role in modern life, as recreational space
and for its value for nature conservation. This book provides for
the first time an authoritative survey of the history of common
land across all three nations of Great Britain from medieval times
to the present day. It charts how commons have been viewed and
valued across the centuries, how they have been used, and how their
vegetation has changed, highlighting parallels and differences
between the histories of common land in England, Scotland and
Wales. It traces the distinctive legal status of common land and
the management regimes which regulated the exercise of common
rights; considers the role of commons as spaces for communal
gatherings and as a resource for the poor; charts the loss of
common land (but also its persistence) during the era of enclosure
in the century 1760-1860; and explores the changing conceptions of
the value and right use of commons since the nineteenth century,
and the impact this has had on their ecological character. Eight
case studies of individual commons illustrate the richness of
common landscapes and their history at local level. They include
crofters' common grazings in Sutherland, mountain commons in the
Lake District and Snowdonia, lowland commons in Co. Durham,
Herefordshire and the New Forest, turbary allotments in
Lincolnshire, and the urban commons of Wimbledon and Putney Heath.
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