Goose Green Peckham SE London (CL15)

Defra holds over 12,000 Commons Commissioners’ decisions as scanned documents. The Commons Registration Act 1965 required local authorities in England and Wales to establish registers of common land and town and village greens within their areas; recording the extent of the land, the owners of the land and rights of common held over them. Commons Commissioners were appointed to settle disputed entries, and to determine the ownership of unclaimed common land and greens.

Please note that Defra does not hold a complete set of all commons commissioners decisions. Defra knows that some decisions are missing from this collection, and are currently working to identify the missing cases.

To search the database please click on the county required from the list below. Then use your internet browser search facility (generally Ctrl + F ) to search for the name of the common or village green, or the register unit number, which you are looking for in the county folder. If the first hit is not the one you are looking click on ‘find next’.

Folders are organised by post-1974 local government counties, even where decisions pre-dated local government reorganisation, or were made after the creation of unitary authorities in the 1990s or later.

These decisions have been scanned from the original typewritten records.  Because of the poor quality of the records, optical character recognition software could not be used and the files are presented solely as scanned images.  If you have a sight impairment and require assistance in examining the files, please contact Defra

Please note - a number of the pdf's in the West Glamorgan folder are damaged and can't be opened. We hope to replace these in the very near future. CGRMA Admin - 26th September 2007

Avon
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Buckinghamshire
Cambridgeshire
Ceredigion
Cheshire
Cleveland
Clywd
Cornwall
Cumbria
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Durham
Dyfed
East Sussex
Essex
Gloucestershire
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Gwent
Gwynedd
Hampshire
Hereford & Worcester
Hertfordshire
Humberside
Isle of Wight
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Merseyside
Mid Glam
Norfolk
North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Powys
Shropshire
Somerset
South Yorkshire
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Tyne & Wear
Warwickshire
West Glamorgan
West Midlands
West Sussex
West Yorkshire
Wiltshire




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CLICK BELOW FOR A LIST OF COMMONS AND GREENS SORTED NUMBERICALLY FOR EASE OF REFERENCE

1CGRMADecisionsByCLVGNos.doc

With our thanks to Steve Byrne for this document