Rights of Common

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England, 1858- The Rights of Common

The Commons refers to resources that are collectively owned. In England this concept created a way to live.

• The Right of Pasture: People living in the forest can let their ponies and cattle out to graze in the common fields.

• The Right of Sheep: People living in the forest can let their sheep out to graze int he common fields.

• The Right of Mast: People living in the forest can let their pigs out in the Fall when acorns drop off the trees to eat the fallen acorns and bark (pannage).

• The Right of Fuelwood: People living in the forest can gather wood from the trees to use in fires.

• The Right of Marl : People living in the forest can dig up clay that acts as a fertilizer to improve the quality of the soil on their land.

The Right of Turbary: People living in the forest can cut peat (layers of dead plant remains found in marshlands) to use in fires. (http://2020climatecampaign.org/content/historical-commons-monday-rights-common)