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Epping Forest

Epping Forest ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE ur greatest legal authorities will not admit that the people of England Ohave any right whatever to enjoy the beautiful scenery of their native land, beyond such glimpses as may be obtained of it from highways and foot- paths. Legally there is no such thing as a “common,” answering to the popular idea of a tract of land over which anybody has a right to roam at will. Every sup- posed common is said by the lawyers to belong absolutely to some body of indi- viduals, to a lord or lords of the manor and the surrounding owners of land who have rights of common over it; and if these parties agree together, the said common may be enclosed, and the public shut out of it for ever. The thousands of tourists who roam every summer over the heathy wastes of Surrey or the breezy downs of Sussex, who climb the peaks or revel on the heather-banks of Wales or Scotland, are every one of them trespassers in the eye of the law; and there is, perhaps, no portion of these favourite resorts of our country-loving people that it is not in the power of some http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

Epping Forest

Wallace, Alfred Russel
Organization & Environment , Volume 20 (2): 14 – Jun 1, 2007
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ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE ur greatest legal authorities will not admit that the people of England Ohave any right whatever to enjoy the beautiful scenery of their native land, beyond such glimpses as may be obtained of it from highways and foot- paths. Legally there is no such thing as a “common,” answering to the popular idea of a tract of land over which anybody has a right to roam at will. Every sup- posed common is said by the lawyers to belong absolutely to some body of indi- viduals, to a lord or lords of the manor and the surrounding owners of land who have rights of common over it; and if these parties agree together, the said common may be enclosed, and the public shut out of it for ever. The thousands of tourists who roam every summer over the heathy wastes of Surrey or the breezy downs of Sussex, who climb the peaks or revel on the heather-banks of Wales or Scotland, are every one of them trespassers in the eye of the law; and there is, perhaps, no portion of these favourite resorts of our country-loving people that it is not in the power of some

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Published: Jun 1, 2007

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