Commoners Rights (legal thing) - has anybody got a clue about this?
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5t3IIa
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The excel sheet opens! excel sheet. I could keep sheep, cattle and pigs on 1216.62 hectares at OS sheet number 110, easting 402000 northing 412000
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Wannabe geese. Geese are great, though, so I see the attraction.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Geese are noisy, vicious bastards.
Just steal the wood.
Just steal the wood.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
it's only illegal if you get caught
5t3IIa
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bimble
Try this biological survey. Get your filters down to 'Rights of estovers' which is.........
estovers
/ɪˈstəʊvəz,ɛˈstəʊvəz/
noun
historical•British
plural noun: estovers
For example:
Try this biological survey. Get your filters down to 'Rights of estovers' which is.........
estovers
/ɪˈstəʊvəz,ɛˈstəʊvəz/
noun
historical•British
plural noun: estovers
- the right to take wood from land one does not own, especially land of which one is the tenant or lessee.
For example:
| COMMONCD | County | District | Number of Commons in Registers | Registration Authority | Vice-county code number | Date Survey visit | Rights of estovers recorded in registers |
60037 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 37 | West Riding | 63 | 05.08.96 | y |
60039 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 39 | West Riding | 63 | 18.07.96 | y |
60040 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 40 | West Riding | 63 | 05.08.96 | y |
60124 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 124 | West Riding | 63 | 19.07.96 | y |
60125 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 125 | West Riding | 63 | 05.08.96 | y |
60455 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 455 | West Riding | 63 | 18.07.96 | y |
60484 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 484 | West Riding | 63 | 18.07.96 | y |
60485 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 485 | West Riding | 63 | 07.08.96 | y |
60486 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 486 | West Riding | 63 | 18.07.96 | y |
60532 | West Yorkshire | Kirklees | 532 | West Riding | 63 | 05.08.96 | y |
Athos
Well-Known Member
Congrats!The excel sheet opens! excel sheet. I could keep sheep, cattle and pigs on 1216.62 hectares at OS sheet number 110, easting 402000 northing 412000
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Should be alright. I don't think goats can run that fast.
bimble
floofy
I can't make the link open , is it me or your link?
5t3IIa
Registered User
5t3IIa
Registered User
Actually, nicking wood (legally) might be of interest to neonwilderness 
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Nicking it illegally is betterActually, nicking wood (legally) might be of interest to neonwilderness
5t3IIa
Registered User
I meant ask you about drying out sticks - if I get them off the ground with airflow and cover them will that do it? A week or more than a week?
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
The longer the better really. It’ll depend on the size and how wet they are.
5t3IIa
Registered User
Around 1-1.5inch diameter and they’ve been out for nearly a year, on a verge
Next door got the trees along our back lane pollarded and the smaller bits got left out. I’ll just try it and see. Shit either doesn’t light at all or smokes a lot if it’s too wet, right? I’m just excited to join #firepits4lyfe 
Probably should have watched Heartbeat but I never did.Like my father before me I am in the habit of nicking wood so to speak.By which I mean that if a bough has fallen from a tree into a public road,or as more often happens,onto the grass at the side of the road I will sally forth with my classic chainsaw and have it for firewood.I like to think of this as gleaning from Council-owned land.As to whether it is legal or not I have no idea.
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
Sounds like they need to be dried a bit. Get an axe and split some into thinner bits too. Start small and build up to get the fire goingAround 1-1.5inch diameter and they’ve been out for nearly a year, on a verge
5t3IIa
Registered User
Saturday shopping list:Sounds like they need to be dried a bit. Get an axe and split some into thinner bits too. Start small and build up to get the fire going
-Axe
-Tarp
Thank you! I’ll be back for more top tips!
bimble
floofy
still cant download it
andysays
Love and solidarity
If I remember right bimble , you live in a house on National Trust land. I used to work for the National Trust at Hatfield Forest, and there were some sort of Commoners' Rights attached to the two cottages there. I can't remember the details, but maybe talking to whoever from the NT is responsible for your property would help.
From memory, there is a whole range of Commoners' Rights, but which particular ones you have depends on local customs, so for instance you might have the right to keep sheep but not pigs, or the right to gather fallen wood but not cut it from the trees.
Be interesting to hear what you find out.
From memory, there is a whole range of Commoners' Rights, but which particular ones you have depends on local customs, so for instance you might have the right to keep sheep but not pigs, or the right to gather fallen wood but not cut it from the trees.
Be interesting to hear what you find out.
bimble
floofy
It’s the NT who sent the police round to my neighbours so if there are such rights (the wood gathering kind) they probably don’t know about it. I will find out though.
eta on the other hand, maybe they do know very well, and maybe we do have some rights, but what neighbour has been doing was way outside of those parameters (he's been driving about at night with his chainsaw and lopping great chunks off things, fallen things but still, for years, massive & obvious).
eta on the other hand, maybe they do know very well, and maybe we do have some rights, but what neighbour has been doing was way outside of those parameters (he's been driving about at night with his chainsaw and lopping great chunks off things, fallen things but still, for years, massive & obvious).
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5t3IIa
Registered User
still cant download it
PM where you are (County and District) and I can extract some info, if you want?
Athos
Well-Known Member
bimble
floofy
I will not be satisfied until i'm in a dusty corner of some council building somewhere with a giant old ledger that confirms it but i do reckon that its us, the three properties listed in 5t3IIa 's database as having "The right of estovers includes 'heybote, woodbote, furze, gorse, fern and underwood’."
(there's 3 houses here in a sort of clump, with no others around )
(there's 3 houses here in a sort of clump, with no others around )
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
farmerbarleymow don't be sad at my "Geese are noisy, vicious bastards". They undeniably are. But that's not to say there isn't a place for noisy, vicious bastards in the world. It's just not as pets. More like if your enemies are a vicious crime gang or some such.
