Yateley's Common Land & Village Greens

The origins of Yateley's common land go back to mediaeval times and before. Please see Heritage & Conservation Topic Group for a history of the commons and their rights. The object of the Commons Registration Act 1965 was to ascertain the facts about common land and any common rights over all the commons in England. In Yateley several commons, a village green and roadside land were registered under the 1965 Act. These units were all given reference numbers in the register held by Hampshire County Council

CL24: Yateley Common including Darby Green and Cricket Green. This unit includes all of Blackbushe Airport, the Sunday Market and the Go-Kart Track, plus all of Yateley Common south of the A30 included within the old parish boundary.

CL27: Yateley Green, including all the area west of the Village Hall, down Chandlers Lane, plus the Church End Green in from of the Dog and Partridge.

CL28: A unit of common near the cemetery and leading into the path to Cottage Farm contiguous with CL24

CL303: in Bell Lane, Frogmore

CL305: Mostly roadside verges in Dungells Lane, Sandhurst Lane, Darby Green and in front of the new Tesco at Frogmore Road.

CL308: The ancient green lane connecting Firgrove Road and Monteagle Lane through the Moulsham Greens. This unit also includes the traingle of land at the junctions of (old) Monteagle Lane and Vigo Lane.

VG178: the four parts of Frogmore Green.

Units CL24, Cl27 and CL28 all have common rights registered over them. Common rights include rights to graze animals, collect firewood, and in some cases, even to dig gravel for the use of the property registered. Common rights are registered to those properties which claimed them under the 1965 Act and persisted with their claims - in the case of CL24 - as far as the High Court. Common rights remain with the property and are passed from owner to owner on each sale of the property.

We intend to list on this website all properties having common rights registered under the 1965 Act. This will facilitate the revision of the registers required when the new Commons Bill 2006 finally becomes law. At the time of writing this webpage (19 Feb 2006) the bill has had its 3rd reading in the House of Lords and is awiting its third reading in the House of Commons.