Sentence examples for is common land from inspiring English sources

The views over Coniston Water have been obscured; although it is common land, it is now largely inaccessible.

I happen to be interested in who owns all this greenspace and how much of it is common land and so I asked for a copy of the raw GIS data.

The site is common land and is used to graze sheep.

But part of the area is common land, which must be replaced if the scheme goes ahead.

In Africa, much of the land used by herdsmen is "commons" land, with no specific ownership, yet swaths of that land are being fenced off and converted to monocultures by and for the developed countries.

This was common land".

Like England before the land enclosures of the 18th century, there are no walls or fences, and the hillsides are common land.

It was common land, loaned to the Americans by the British Government during WWII and never returned to the people of Newbury.

Agroforestry systems are common land uses across Canada and could play a substantial role in sequestering carbon (C) as part of efforts to combat climate change.

The Romans mined lead in the Castleton caverns and the straight lines of dry stone walls mark the fields that were common land before the "enclosures" drove the peasants to the towns in the 18th century.

The army claims that the 11,120 acres of fells on the route of the Pennine Way ceased to be common land when it compulsorily purchased the grazing rights of farmers in 2003.