BYELAWS

1 made by the

URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL OF

in pursuance of a Scheme approved by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the provisions of the

COMMONS ACL 1899,

with respect to

ENGLEFIELD GREEN

situate in the

URBAN DISTRICT of EGHAM in the

COUNTY of ' : • • ' a 7 ' • = - >777 a ,s; m

BYELAHS

made by the Urban District Council of Egham in y>. 4 : : j 3 I (iff pursuance of a Scheme approved by the Minister 7 f. f.: n ill 7 I W of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the mm W provisions of - > 7 J

• 7 !' - the Commons Act, 1899, with respect to * 7/J M m i//j s m 7 iHI, : SiWSilll W ill iff l7 •i ' il , m HI M ENGLEFIELD GREEN 1M if ' m mmII 1m IV m 7 ; I®;m i Si & ‘ iffm \K7. m m 11 I in the Urban of Egham, the . 7 & § fm situate District in § m fjll i I > 7 (: m im m - il 7: m r } I w County of Surrey V mm ; » m 7 mm . V: '«1« v VvM Vi m 1 mm m 7 7: wmI •' K m , m m m ;? V 5« m • Wmmm Throughout . - :7 1. these byelaws the expression :v • - - the Council means the Urban District Council of . m ni m " " wm • S * '///! * «w M m Egham; the expression "the Common" means the ffl® M v -i * ! ! 1 i f / (} f HI m m A ran m piece of land with ponds, streams, paths and roads ;i if! i n MiK f i ! i 1> l«V iffi M thereon commonly known as Englefield Green situate i . WJ I ! i m 5$ in the Urban District of Egham in the County of Surrey and referred to as "the common" in the Scheme approved under the Commons Act, 1899, on the

' ' ' iyM - ' 1 . V;:$:g/i; Twenty-eighth day of June, 1955, by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; and the expression "the Scheme " means the Scheme approved by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food herein- " : : PMBBBBP iHT ' . . before referred to. o ;, ’ wifi:: . - : ; vvy - \/ ' ;s v : ; authority ^ :• -v 2. A person shall not without lawful

1 y * * ' / * * •; • / *; * * •* /* ; * / • ( ' ‘ ;Viv ';'•% :: * :• / y/v::,'yv.. ;’ !*#V*»v .:. •v•* •/•:•••lyv v '/* ';!*/ ••• ••• • •;•*•.% • /, V m // > : : , / " . .. . ./ . . . ? '< f << ^' - ' ^ ' ' . ' place or leave on the Common any roadsand, materials for repair of roads, or wood. i• 3. A person shall not without lawful authority dig, cut, or take turf, sods, gravel, sand, clay or M other substance on or from the Common or cut, fell, § or carelessly or negligently injure any gorse, heather i timber or other tree, shrub, brushwood or other plant, 1 growing on the Common.

- 1 - or taking part in the game from the use of such space. 4. A person shall not carelessly or negligently injure or deface or, without lawful authority, remove 11. A person shall not without lawful authority any works or property maintained by the Council on : A turn out or permit to graze on the Common any cattle, the Common. sheep or other animals. 5. A person shall not without lawful authority 12. A person shall not hinder or obstruct any ' post or paint any bill, placard, advertisement, or • 1 Officer of the Council in the exercise of his powers notice on any tree or fence or erection on the or duties under the Scheme or under any of the Common. foregoing byelaws. 6. A person shall not without lawful authority 13. Every person who shall offend against any of shoot or chase game or other animals or set traps or these byelaws shall be liable on summary conviction to nets or lay snares for animals on the Common. a fine not exceeding Two Pounds. 7. A person shall not (except in the case of a 14. An Officer of the Council may, after due I fair lawfully held) place on the Common any show, warning, remove from the Common any structure erected exhibition, swing, roundabout, or other like thing. or placed thereon in contravention of the Scheme, or any animal driven or placed on the Common in contra- 8. A person shall not wilfully, carelessly or vention of these byelaws. ! negligently throw or discharge any missile on the Common damage of the Council may, after due 1 to the or danger of any person. 15. An Officer i warning, remove from the Common any person who, within 9. A person shall not without lawful authority his view, infringes any of these byelaws, or any pro- fire or discharge any firearm on the Common.* vision of the Vagrancy Acts. 10. Where the Council set apart any such part The foregoing Byelaws were ) of the Common as may be fixed by the Council, and made by the Urban District Council ) may be described in a notice board affixed or set * of Egham and the Common Seal of the) up in some conspicuous position on the Common, for Council was hereunto at a ) (L.S.) 1 i affixed the purpose of any game specified in the notice Meeting held on the Thirteenth day ) I board, which, by reason of the rules or manner of May, One thousand nine hundred ) playing, or for the prevention of damage, danger or and Fifty-eight in the presence of:) discomfort to any person on the Common, may - necessitate the exclusive use by the player or R. H. TRY i players of any space on such part of the Common - Chairman of the Council a person shall not in any space elsewhere on the mm Common play or take part in any game so specified H. R. H. SMITH ’ mm I••• in such a manner as to exclude persons not playing Clerk to the Council m 3 - 2 - — — fi this ) BYELAWS made by the District Council of The Secretary of State pursuance day confirmed the foregoing byelaws) in of a Scheme approved by the Minister of which they ) (L S.) Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the provisions and fixed the date on . of are to come into operation as the ) the Commons Act 1899 with respect to Englefield Green situate in the District of Runnymede in the st day September3 1958. ) 1 of County of Surrey. E. H. GWYNN " An Assistant Under Secretary The series of byelaws relating to Englefield of State Green made by the Urban District Council of Egham on t the 13th day of May 1958 and confirmed by the - Secretary of State on the 24th day of July 1958, are Home Office, hereby amended, by the insertion after Byelaw No. 11, . of the following byelaws, which shall be read and Whitehall construed as one with the series aforesaid th July, 1958 24 . "11 A. A person shall not without lawful authority ride a horse within the area bounded by St. Jude's Road, Bishop's Gate Road, Barley Mow Road and the highway adjacent to the Cricket Pavilion except that no person shall be prohibited from walking horses within a distance of 5 m. of the perimeter of that part of the Common. 11 B. A person shall not on the Common drive, chip or pitch a solid golf ball.": and In Byelaw No. 13 of the said series of byelaws there shall ! be substituted the words 'twenty pounds' for the words ! 'two pounds'. Given under the Common Seal of the) DISTRICT COUNCIL OF RUNNYMEDE this) L.S.) twenty-sixth day of November3 ) 1975. ) B. S. JARVIS Chairman of the Council L. W. WAY Clerk and Chief Executive - 5 - - 4 - The foregoing byelaws are hereby BYELAWS made by the Borough Council of Runnymede in confirmed by the Secretary of h: V pursuance of a scheme approved by the Minister of Agri- (L.S.) State and shall come into r: culture, Fisheries and Food under the provisions of the operation on the first day of Commons Act, 1899, with respect to Englefield Green April, 1976. situate in the in the County of i Surrey. R.F.D. SHUFFREY An Assistant Under Secretary Byelaws relating to Englefield Green made by the of State Urban District Council of Egham on 'the 13th day of May * 1958 and confirmed by the Secretary of State on 1st day Signed by authority of the of September 1958, as amended by the District Council of Secretary of State Runnymede on the 26th day of November 1975 and confirmed by the Secretary of State on the 1st day cf April 1976 Home Office, are hereby further amended by the insertion of the follow Whitehall. ing Byelaws, which shall be read and construed as one - with the series aforesaid:- 10th February, 1976. Byelaw No. 3 shall be deleted and the following byelaw substituted:- A person shall not, except in the exercise of any lawful right or privilege or with previous consent in writing from the Council, .remove or displace any turf, sods, gravel, sand, clay or other substance on the Common.” The following byelaws shall be inserted:- "11C. A person shall not without lawful authority or any or privi ( otherwise in the exercise of right lege draw, ride, drive or place upon the Common- or any part thereof any carriage, cart, caravan, i truck, cycle, motor-cycle or other vehicle, except in . the case of accident or emergency. Provided that where a space is set apart on the Common for any class of vehicle this byelaw shall not be deemed to prohibit the riding or driving in or to that place by a direct route of any vehicle of the class for which the space is set apart.

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BSL _ 11D. No person shall erect a tent or any other struc- ture for the purpose of camping on the Common.

HE. No person shall light a fire on the Common* or place or throw or let fall a lighted match or any other thing so as to be likely to cause a fire.TT

In Byelaw No. 13 of the said series of byelaws there shall be substituted the words "fifty pounds" for the * • words "twenty pounds". - Given under the Common Seal of the) BOROUGH COUNCIL OP RUNNYMEDE this ) (L.S.) twenty-fifth day of October 1979 )

E.W. ANDREWS Clerk and Chief Executive

The foregoing byelaws are hereby confirmed by the (L.S.) Secretary of State and shall come into operation on the first day of February 1980. R.F.D. SHUFFREY An Assistant Under Secretary of State

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Home Office * SW1

15th January 1980 : i Sii

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