Best Common Land
The New Forest is an area of preserved woodland, heathland, and pasture primarily located in Hampshire, southern England. Established as a royal hunting forest by William the Conqueror in 1079, the region retains a unique agricultural system based on common grazing rights, where local residents free...
Epping Forest is an area of ancient woodland covering approximately 2,400 hectares across northeast London and the county of Essex. Protected by the Epping Forest Act of 1878, it has been managed by the City of London Corporation as a public open space, preserving common rights such as grazing and f...
Cleeve Common is a 405-hectare area of limestone grassland and heath situated on the Cotswold escarpment in Gloucestershire, England. It is the largest area of common land in the Cotswolds and includes Cleeve Hill, the highest point of the Cotswold Hills at 330 metres above sea level. The site is a...
Hindhead Commons is an area of lowland heath and common land in Surrey, England, managed by the National Trust. The estate includes Gibbet Hill, one of the highest points in southeast England at approximately 272 metres, and borders the Devil's Punch Bowl, a large natural amphitheatre. The heathland...
Minchinhampton Common is an area of Cotswold limestone grassland and registered common land situated on the hills above Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire, England. The site contains prehistoric and early historic archaeological features including ancient strip lynchets, Bronze Age round barrows, and...
Rodborough Common is an area of limestone grassland situated on a hilltop above Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. Managed by the National Trust, the common is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest recognized for its ecosystem. The site supports a variety of flora, including pasque flowe...
Keston Common is a 55-hectare area of heathland, woodland, and ponds located in the London Borough of Bromley. The site is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to its diverse habitats, which include bog, heath, and ancient woodland. It features Keston Ponds, historically notable beca...
Hayes Common is an area of heathland and woodland located in the London Borough of Bromley. It is jointly designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest along with the neighboring Keston Common. The landscape consists primarily of lowland heath, acidic grassland, and birch-oak woodland. Managed...
Porlock Common is an area of upland heath located within Exmoor National Park in Somerset, England. Situated on the hills above the village of Porlock, it consists of moorland dominated by heather and other low-growing shrubs. The common land is used for grazing livestock, including sheep and ponies...
Mynydd Llangatwg is a limestone moorland plateau located within Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) National Park in Wales. The area is characterized by its prominent northern escarpment, which overlooks the Usk Valley. Beneath the surface, the porous limestone geology has allowed for the formation...
Culmstock Beacon is a heath-covered ridge in Devon's Blackdown Hills, notable for its stone signal hut and views across the Culm Valley.
North Hill is a coastal heathland ridge above Minehead in Somerset, notable for views across the Bristol Channel toward South Wales.
Reigate Heath is a Surrey SSSI and Local Nature Reserve, notable for rare lowland heath, acid grassland and seven protected Bronze Age burial mounds.
Hadley Common is woodland and grassland in the London Borough of Barnet, preserved as registered common land on London's northern fringe.
Caesar's Camp is a large Iron Age hillfort on the Hampshire-Surrey border, protected as a Scheduled Monument for its substantial surviving earthworks.
Clapham Common is a large public common in south London, notable for its three ponds and an extensive Victorian bandstand built in 1890.
Berkhamsted Common is historic common land in Hertfordshire, notable for the 1866 Battle of Berkhamsted Common against attempted enclosure.
Oxshott Heath is an area of wooded common land in Surrey, England, forming part of the Esher Commons Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Bramshott and Ludshott Commons are adjoining Surrey and Hampshire heaths, notable for extensive lowland heath managed by the National Trust.
Holt Heath is lowland heath in Dorset, notable as an SSSI and National Nature Reserve supporting scarce reptiles, heathland birds and invertebrates.
Walberswick Common is a coastal heath in Suffolk, England, notable for its heather, gorse and habitat for declining birds such as nightjar and woodlark.
Therfield Heath is chalk grassland and common land near Royston, Hertfordshire, protected as an SSSI for its rare plants and invertebrates.
Mynydd Mawr is a 698-metre mountain in Eryri, north Wales, notable for a summit formed from an intrusion of riebeckite-bearing microgranite.
Baildon Moor is a registered urban common in West Yorkshire, notable for Bronze Age cup-and-ring stones and public access for recreation.
Nomansland Common is common land between Harpenden and Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, known for heathland, woodland, and prehistoric earthworks.
Elstead Common is a lowland heath near Elstead, Surrey, notable as part of the Thursley, Hankley and Frensham Commons SSSI conservation complex.
Rushmere Heath is a heathland common on the eastern edge of Ipswich, Suffolk, notable as the starting point of the 50-mile Sandlings Walk.
Salthouse Heath is an elevated heath above Salthouse on the north Norfolk coast, notable as a County Wildlife Site within the Norfolk Coast landscape.
Stoke Common is an 83-hectare SSSI in Buckinghamshire, preserving the county's largest surviving heathland and rare bog-associated wildlife.
Carnyorth Common is a granite heath near St Just in Cornwall, notable for its prehistoric remains and surviving traces of nineteenth-century mining.
