Common land in Nottinghamshire: check a postcode
Registered common land in Nottinghamshire is protected by the Commons Act 2006: fencing, buildings, driveways and hard surfaces on it need Secretary of State consent, and commoners' rights survive a sale. Enter a postcode to see registered commons, CRoW open-access land and public rights of way within 250 m.
Largest registered commons in Nottinghamshire: North Holme, South Holme and Smithy Marsh · Normanton Holme · Grassthorpe Holme · Holme Marsh · The Sykes and grass roads, known as Laxton Gait lands · Mansey Common · Land in the Parish of Sutton-on-Trent · Cooking Moor, Cooking Moor Lane, Parish Pound, Wellow Green, Grimstone Green, Town Green, Wellow Dam and Wast.
Source: Natural England CRoW Act 2000 s.4 conclusive Registered Common Land layer, AUTHORITY = “Nottingham”. Town and village greens are registered separately and are not open data.
Free: touches common land? · right of way within 50 m? — Try WD3 1QB (Batchworth Heath), TN7 4EX (Ashdown Forest), OX2 6TN (Port Meadow)
What the £9.99 report adds for Nottinghamshire
- Every registered common within 250 m with its CL register number, so your solicitor can pull the register entry from Nottingham in one request.
- Whether the point sits inside CRoW open-access land, and which kind (open country, common or dedicated land).
- Footpaths, bridleways and byways within 250 m with the council reference, and the Highways Act 1980 rules that stop them being blocked or built over.
- A dated PDF with the legal basis of each finding and full data provenance.