Sentence examples for common land of from inspiring English sources
The phrase "common land of" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to refer to land that is owned or used by a group of people or a community, rather than being privately owned. Example: "The picnic was held on the common land of the village, where everyone gathered to celebrate the annual harvest festival."
The common land of a heath might have agricultural purposes, be exploited for quarrying and housebuilding, be rescued for a wider populace, be inhabited by visionaries, radicals, kite flyers, clerks, cruisers, families.
He knows that the landscape beloved by Wordsworth and Wainwright and so many since has survived because of all those "nobodies" whose names have been lost to history, but who over the centuries have herded their flocks on the common land of the fells.
In the other, it's winter, the landscape muddy and sliced in two by an industrial white metal fence, heralding the privatisation of ancient common land on the borders of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
The proposal being worked on involves the construction of four or five turbines, each up to 50 metres tall, on windswept common land on top of Mynydd Uchaf.
The circuit is being built on 332 hectares (820 acres) of common land so the company has to deregister it, find an equivalent amount of land elsewhere and re-register that as common land.
The House of Lords returned their rights to the common land to the people of Newbury and in 1997 Newbury was able to buy back its common land from the Ministry of Defence for £7million.
This was part of a nationwide initiative to begin cultivation of common land to lessen the food shortage caused by the Napoleonic Wars.
A tract of common land, for example, may be used by everyone in a community for grazing cattle or gathering food.
He sees Clare's tragedy – a man at the whim of the social and economic forces of his time: enclosures, loss of common land, construction of railways.
The village has 212 acres of uncultivated common land, one of the largest such tracts in Greater London, and the Pagoda is about 200 yards away, said Robin Chatwin, a director at Savills, which has the listing.
In 1873, 300 acre of common land north of the town known as Portfield was enclosed and built upon and the town's population rapidly expanded.
