To save argument next week this is what we expect for Village Greens:
How to find if land is a village green:
Find out where your local common land or village green is by contacting your local council. It keeps the ‘Register of Common Land and Village Greens’ for your area.
Each entry in the register includes:
- a description of the land
- who has rights to use it, and what those rights are
- who owns it, or who owned it when it was first registered
As a very quick rule of thumb - if the space in question is surrounded by the back gardens of the houses it probably isn’t a village green. If the green is surrounded by quaint cottages, a rustic pub (with yellow umbrellas?) and a Norman church it probably is a proper village green 