Best Common Land

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 limestone common in Gloucestershire, notable as the Cotswolds' largest common and its highest point at 330 metres.

Hindhead Commons is a Surrey heathland estate acquired early by the National Trust, notable for Gibbet Hill, the county's second-highest point.

Minchinhampton Common is Cotswold limestone grassland in Gloucestershire, notable for prehistoric fields, burial mounds and the Bulwarks earthwork.

Rodborough Common is limestone grassland above Stroud, Gloucestershire, notable for pasque flowers, early purple orchids and views over the Severn Vale.

Keston Common is a 55-hectare heathland in southeast London, notable for its SSSI habitats and visits by naturalist Charles Darwin.

Hayes Common is heathland and woodland in the London Borough of Bromley, protected with neighboring Keston Common as a biological SSSI.

Porlock Common is an upland heath on Exmoor in Somerset, forming part of the moorland above Porlock and supporting heather and grazing livestock.

Mynydd Llangatwg is a limestone moorland plateau in Bannau Brycheiniog, Wales, notable for its northern escarpment and extensive cave systems.

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.