History - Further Information

• Paul Clayden, Our Common Land: the law and history of common land and village greens (Henley-on-Thames: Open Spaces Society, 2003).

• G. D. Gadsden, The Law of Commons (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1988). n W. G. Hoskins and L. Dudley Stamp, The Common Lands of England and Wales (London: Collins, 1963).

• J. M. Neeson, Commoners: common right, enclosure and social change in England, 1700-1820 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

• Angus J. L. Winchester, The Harvest of the Hills: Rural Life in Northern England and the Scottish Borders, 1400-1700 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000).

• Eleanor A. Straughton, Common Grazing in the Northern English Uplands, 1800-1965: A History of National Policy and Local Practice with Special Attention to the Case of Cumbria (Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 2008)

Some useful common land websites:

• Malvern Hills Conservators

• Newcastle Town Moor

• New Forest Verderers

• Wimbledon & Putney Commons

• Laxton, Nottinghamshire