Sentence examples for of common land from inspiring English sources

The Depression-era folksinger Woody Guthrie understood the issues attending the privatization of common land.

Rifkin likens the gig economy to the establishment of common land in feudal times.

The property borders a creek and 180 acres of common land with waterfalls and hiking trails.

The English countryside is crisscrossed by a thick web of public footpaths and peppered with areas of common land.

In Autumn an electric fence appears around a plot of common land, patrolled by the fictive security agency SA4A.

An ugly, green fence had been erected, enclosing a section of common land next to the lido.

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.

Indeed, he traces its origins back to the enclosure of common land beginning in the 15th century that left a "slow burning disdain" among ordinary people.

Few are likely to be convinced that Austen depicts Mr Knightley as a ruthless encloser of common land, "blind" to and "inconsiderate" of the concerns of poorer villagers.

This expanse of common land is mentioned in the Domesday Book and affords unexpected vistas of Oxford, grazing cattle and vast spans of open sky.

"In the archetypal feudal village there was always that space of common land where everyone had the right to graze their pigs and behave in a sensible way.