ANGUS WINCHESTER is Emeritus Professor of Local and Landscape History at Lancaster University. His interests in common land have developed over many years, arising originally out of research into the history of upland landscapes in northern England. He was also, the first Director of VCH Cumbria until his retirement from Lancaster University in 2016.

Good maps and figures accompany each [case study], and Winchester's background as an historical geographer is evident throughout the book in the well-thought-out illustrative material. Also to be commended are the excellent footnotes, which together with the Select Bibliography flag myriad place-specific studies. A marvellous study.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Common Threads1. Commons in the British Landscape2. Custom and Law: The Genesis of Common Land3. Managing Communal Resources 4. Commons as Communal Spaces5. Living on the Edge: Commons and the Poor6. The Age of 'Improvement': Privatisation and the Reconfiguration of Common Land7. The Commons Reinvented 8. The Changing Face of Common Land since 1860Part II. A Kaleidoscope of Common Landscapes: Eight Case Studies9. North Assynt Common Grazings, Sutherland10. Nether Wasdale Common, Cumberland11. Cockfield Fell, Co. Durham12. Isle of Axholme Turbary Allotments, Lincolnshire13. Llanllechid Mountain and Aber Mountain, Caernarvonshire14. Bringsty Common and Bromyard Downs, Herefordshire15. Ibsley Common and Rockford Common, New Forest, Hampshire16. Wimbledon Common and Putney Heath, SurreyConclusion: Common Ground Select BibliographyIndex

ANGUS WINCHESTER is Emeritus Professor of Local and Landscape History at Lancaster University. His interests in common land have developed over many years, arising originally out of research into the history of upland landscapes in northern England. He was also, the first Director of VCH Cumbria until his retirement from Lancaster University in 2016.

Good maps and figures accompany each [case study], and Winchester's background as an historical geographer is evident throughout the book in the well-thought-out illustrative material. Also to be commended are the excellent footnotes, which together with the Select Bibliography flag myriad place-specific studies. A marvellous study.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Common Threads1. Commons in the British Landscape2. Custom and Law: The Genesis of Common Land3. Managing Communal Resources 4. Commons as Communal Spaces5. Living on the Edge: Commons and the Poor6. The Age of 'Improvement': Privatisation and the Reconfiguration of Common Land7. The Commons Reinvented 8. The Changing Face of Common Land since 1860Part II. A Kaleidoscope of Common Landscapes: Eight Case Studies9. North Assynt Common Grazings, Sutherland10. Nether Wasdale Common, Cumberland11. Cockfield Fell, Co. Durham12. Isle of Axholme Turbary Allotments, Lincolnshire13. Llanllechid Mountain and Aber Mountain, Caernarvonshire14. Bringsty Common and Bromyard Downs, Herefordshire15. Ibsley Common and Rockford Common, New Forest, Hampshire16. Wimbledon Common and Putney Heath, SurreyConclusion: Common Ground Select BibliographyIndex

ANGUS WINCHESTER is Emeritus Professor of Local and Landscape History at Lancaster University. His interests in common land have developed over many years, arising originally out of research into the history of upland landscapes in northern England. He was also, the first Director of VCH Cumbria until his retirement from Lancaster University in 2016.

Good maps and figures accompany each [case study], and Winchester's background as an historical geographer is evident throughout the book in the well-thought-out illustrative material. Also to be commended are the excellent footnotes, which together with the Select Bibliography flag myriad place-specific studies. A marvellous study.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Common Threads1. Commons in the British Landscape2. Custom and Law: The Genesis of Common Land3. Managing Communal Resources 4. Commons as Communal Spaces5. Living on the Edge: Commons and the Poor6. The Age of 'Improvement': Privatisation and the Reconfiguration of Common Land7. The Commons Reinvented 8. The Changing Face of Common Land since 1860Part II. A Kaleidoscope of Common Landscapes: Eight Case Studies9. North Assynt Common Grazings, Sutherland10. Nether Wasdale Common, Cumberland11. Cockfield Fell, Co. Durham12. Isle of Axholme Turbary Allotments, Lincolnshire13. Llanllechid Mountain and Aber Mountain, Caernarvonshire14. Bringsty Common and Bromyard Downs, Herefordshire15. Ibsley Common and Rockford Common, New Forest, Hampshire16. Wimbledon Common and Putney Heath, SurreyConclusion: Common Ground Select BibliographyIndex