[OSM-talk] Several approved features moved to Map_features page

[guy at graviles-reynolds.org]

Quoting Robert Hart <Robert.Hart at BuroHappold.com>:

> > A village green is legally defined as an area where people in the
> > community
> > have enjoyed legitimate sports or pastimes for at least twenty
> > years. 'Legitimate sports or pastimes' include things like:
> > 
> 
> > In general terms, common land is land owned by one person over which
> > another
> > person is entitled to exercise rights of common (such as grazing
> animals
> > or
> > cutting bracken for livestock bedding), and these rights are generally
> > exercisable in common with others.
> > 
> > They are also subjected to different protection under the law
> > 
> 
> Could you provide some references to this? And perhaps add it to the
> wiki-pages for the tags under discussion?
> 
One diffinative source is the Defra website, at :

      http://www.defra.gov.uk.

Then search for common land, and town/village green.

As an side, one thing to remember is that common land does not necessarily 
denote common ownership, most common land is privately or local authority 
owned. What is does denote is rights in common, and as has been pointed out in 
this thread and the one it has spawned there are lots of wierd and wonderful 
rights in common.

Guy 'Batchoy' Reynolds