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This land is our land...
If only common land really was common and everywhere we looked - but the mass privatisation of land that took place under the enclosures took care of all that. There is still a lot of common land - retained through local rebellion, or rejected by the 18th century privatisers because it was poor quality. And you can find it all over England. I loved the freedom of wandering on Blackheath as a teenager, after being caged up in school all day, seeking open space and a way to get out of the house. Now I feel the same need for liberty walking on Port Meadow by the Thames in Oxford.