February 2005 Agricultural Management of Common Land in England and Wales Appendices Prepared by Land Use Consultants for Defra Appendix 1 Bodies involved in the agricultural management of commons in England and Wales NOTE: This Appendix lists the associations, legal authorities and other bodies thought to be involved in the agricultural management of common land. It is based on information from a variety of sources which are identified in the tables and described at the end of the Appendix. This list is not exhaustive and some of the bodies listed may no longer have an active interest in agricultural management. The authors therefore take no responsibility for inaccuracies or omissions. App 1.1 Location Name of Organisation Source 1 Federation of Commons Associations Cumbria Federation of Cumbria Commoners 1. Lancashire Proposed Lancashire Commoners’ Federation (will be 9. affiliated to Cumbria) Yorkshire Yorkshire Federation of Commoners and Moorland Graziers 9. (established Nov. 04) Wales Proposed Welsh Federation of Commoners (in process of 9. being established) Cornwall Cornwall Commoners Council 4. 5. Informally constituted commoners associations Wales Abergwesyn Hill Graziers’ Association 12. Suffolk (?) Alde & Ore Association 2. Wales Allt Dolanog Graziers Association 12. Wales Beacon and Pool Hills Graziers’ Association 12. Cumbria Blawith and Subberthwaite Commoners’ Association 2. Cornwall Bodmin Moor Commoners’ Association (associated with 4. 13. Cornwall Commoners Council – see above) Northumberland Burgage Holders of Alnmouth Common 2. Wales Caergurwen & Penlle’rfedwen Commoners Association 7. Cumbria Caldbeck Commoners Association 2. Cumbria Castleshaw Commoners 2. Surrey Chobham Society 2. Shropshire Clee Liberty Commoners’ Association 13. North Yorkshire CL63 Protection Group 2. Shropshire Common Sense for Prees 2. Shropshire Commoners of the Manor, Stretton-en-le-Dale 2. Cumbria Crosby Ravenstock Commoners 2. Cumbria Cumbria Upland Management Working Group 2. Devon Dartmoor Commoners’ Council 2. Cornwall David Stowe Commoners’ Association 2. Devon Forest of Dartmoor Commoners Association 2. Surrey Frensham Common Interests Committee 2. Wales Garreg Goch Commoners Association 2. Wales Gladestry and Colva Commoners Association 7. Wales Gower Commoners’ Association 2. 7. 13. West Berkshire Greenham and Crookham Commons Commission 2. Wales, Flintshire Halkyn Common Graziers’ & Commoners’ Association; 10. 13. Halkyn Common Management Committee Shropshire Hilton Commoners Committee 7. West Pennines, Holcombe Moor Commoners’ Association 4. Bury MBC Forest of Dean Hundalls Wood Commoners’ Association 6. Yorkshire Dales Nat Park Moughton Common - Ingleborough Management Committee 4. 7. Pennines, Teesdale Knock & Dufton Fells 4. Lancashire Lancashire Commons, Commons Association 7. Cumbria Langdale and Grasmere Commons Association 2. Wales Llanafan Hill Graziers Association 7. 13. 1 Numbered documents and sources are listed after the tables App 1.2 Location Name of Organisation Source 1 Wales Llanbedr, Llandeilo Common Graziers’ Association 12. Wales Llanbister and Moelfre Hills Graziers’ Association 12. Wales Llangennth Manors Limited 7. Wales Llanwrthwl Common Graziers’ Association 12. Lincolnshire Lincoln Commons Horse Association 4. 7. Northumberland Lowick Commoners (Inquiries suggest not active) 4. Shropshire Longymnd Commoners Association 7. East Devon Luppitt Commons Association 7. Devon Mary Tavy Commoners’ Association 2. Suffolk Mellis Common Advisory Committee 2. Lancashire or Staffordshire? Middleton Commoners Association 7. Wales Mignaint Grazier’ Association 7. Wales Moeldod Graziers’ Association 12. Wales Moelynaidd Graziers’ Association 12. Norfolk New Buckenham Common Right Holders Association 7. Cheshire Nether Knutsford Freeholders’ Association 6. Hampshire New Forest Committee 2. Hampshire New Forest Commoners’ Defence Association 2. North Yorkshire North York Moors Association 2. Wales (Bridgend) Ogmore Commoners Association 6. Essex Orsett Fen Right Holders 2. Wales Penderyn Commoners Association 7. Devon (Dartmoor) Peter Tavy Commons 4. Hebden Bridge Popples Commoners’ Association 4. East Sussex Pound Green Commoners Association 4. 7. Worcestershire Powick Commons Committee 2. North Shropshire Prees Heath Commoners’ Association 4. Wales Rhosfaelog Common Graziers’ Association 12. Lancashire Rossendale & District Commoners Association 7. 13. Rushmore Commoners 4. Norfolk Scolt Head & District Common Rightholders’ Association 7. Gloucestershire/Cotswolds Selsley Common Graziers Association (Woodchester and 7. Selsley Commons) Basingstoke Silchester Common Management Committee 4. Cornwall St Cleer and District Commoners Association 4. South Shropshire Stiperstones Commoners Association 7. North York Moors Stockdale Moor Commoners Association 4. Wales Swansea Commoners Association 2. Suffolk The Mellis Common Management Committee 4. Essex The Orsett Fen Right Holders 4. Cumbria Thwaites Fell Commoners’ Association 2. Cumbria Threkeld and Bassenthwaite Commons Association 2. Cumbria Uldale Commons Association 2. Cumbria Ulpha Commoners’ Association 2. Cumbria Watermillock Commoners’ Association 2. Wales Welsh Newton Common Residents Association 2. Norfolk West Winch Commoners 4. West Devon (Dartmoor?) Whitchurch Commoners’ Association 4. West Somerset Withypool Commoners Association 4. 6. Oxfordshire Wolvercote Commoners’ Association 4. 7. Wales Ysgwdffordd Common Graziers’ Association 12. App 1.3 Location Name of Organisation Source 1 Boards of Conservators Hawes, North Yorkshire Abbotside Conservators 8. 13. High Weald, East Sussex Ashdown Forest Board of Conservators 6. Surrey Banstead Common Conservators 2. North Yorkshire Beamsley Moor Board of Conservators 8. Somerset Burrington Common Conservators 8. London Chislehurst & St Pauls Commons Conservators 4. 6. South East Chilterns Conservation Board and Chilterns Commons 7. Network (Partnership of 22 local regional and national organisations. 200 commons within the AONB) Gloucestershire Cleeve Common Board of Conservators 8. Worcestershire Clent Hills Board of Conservators 8. (May now be Clent Hills Management Committee – no current grazing) Wales, Pencoed Coity Wallia Board of Conservators 6. 13. Cumbria Conservators of Crosby Garrett Fell 14. Cumbria Conservators of East Stainmore Common 14. Cheshire Conservators of Runcorn Heath 8. (Possibly managed now by Halton BC) Cumbria Conservators of Matterdale Common 14. Gloucestershire Conservators of Sodbury Commons 7. 13. Cumbria Conservators of Winton and Kaber 8. Cumbria Crosby Garrett Board of Conservators 8. Cumbria East Stainmore Common Board of Conservations 8. Warwickshire Gosford Green Conservators 8. (Ownership vested in Coventry County Council) Devon Great Torrington Commons Conservators 8. Essex Laindon Common Conservators 8. (Possibly Basildon DC) West Yorkshire Langbar Moor Board of Conservators 8. Surrey Oxshott Heath Board of Conservators 8. Essex Shenfield Common Board of Conservators 8. North Yorkshire Skipwith Common Board of Conservators (Managed by 8. Yorkshire Wildlife Trust) Sussex Sussex Downs Conservation Board, (160 commons including 6. Blackdown and Woolbeding) Herefordshire/Worcestershire The Malvern Hills Conservators 4. 7. Hertfordshire Therfield Common Board of Conservators 8. Anglesey, North Wales Tywyn Trewan Common Conservators 8. Essex West Tilbury Commons Conservators 6. Staffordshire Wolstanton Marsh Conservators, (Wolstanton Rural DC 8. appointed Conservators 1983) App 1.4 Location Name of Organisation Source 1 Ancient Management Systems (or own Act independent of 1876 Act) East Riding of Yorkshire Beverley Pasture Masters 13. Herefordshire Bringsty Common Manorial Court 4. 7. (currently no grazing) Newcastle upon Tyne Burgage Holders of Almouth Common 6. Wales Court Leet and Baron of the Manor of Mynachlog-ddu 7. North York Moors Danby Court Leet 6. Devon (Dartmoor) The Spitchwich Courts Leet and Baron 11. Pembrokeshire (Preseli Hills) Courts Leet and Baron of the Baronary of Cemaes 11. North York Moors Manor of Fyling Court Leet 4. Cornwall Manor of Roscraddoc Ltd (common land in East Cornwall – 6. established in relation to past mining interests) North York Moors The Court Leet of the Manor of Spaunton 4. Local Authorities owning and managing commons, or responding to consultations Greater Manchester Amberswood Common managed by Wigan MBC 8. Rother District Council Bexhill Down Common 8. West Midlands Birmingham City Council 7. Surrey Bisley Parish Council 7. Surrey Borough of Spelthorne 6. Norfolk Breckland District Council 7. Buckinghamshire Brill Parish Council 7. South Shropshire Clee St Margaret Parish Council, Clee Liberty Common 13. Warwickshire Carlton Parish Council 7. West Yorkshire City of Wakefield MBC 6. Northumberland Community Council of Northumberland, 7 coastal commons, 6. 68 coal measures Northumberland Gateshead Borough Council 7. Gloucestershire Gloucester County Council Environment Team. Five areas of 13. common land, some with agricultural grazing in conjunction with National Trust. Hampshire Hampshire County Council: Ewer, Selborne, Bransbury, New 7. Forest, Cadnam, Half Moon, Plaitford, Hightown Commons Herefordshire Herefordshire District Council 7. Gloucestershire Hillesley & Tresham Parish Council, Assley and Harely 7. Commons Worcestershire Kempsey Parish Council 7. Bedfordshire Luton Moors 8. Surrey Merrow Downs, Guildford Borough Council 8. Northumberland Northumberland County Council (96 commons) 7. Norfolk Norwich City Council