The Landscapes of Common Land: History and Ecology in Norfolk and Beyond

by Tom Williamson

Commons are an important part of the English landscape. Survivors from a once more extensive network otherwise eroded by the inexorable progress of enclosure, they provide a taste of wildness, crucial habitats for wildlife and valued spaces for recreation. To many people they seem to offer a tangible link with happier, more egalitarian times, when communities controlled the land; or with periods yet more remote, representing fragments of the wilderness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914427335
• ISBN13: 9781914427336
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 224 Pages