The world’s smallest

Image of the day – 143

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Most English villages had a piece of common land where any villager could graze sheep or cattle, but the coming of field enclosures from the late Middle Ages onwards, reduced or removed many of these open spaces.

This one in Siddington, near Cirencester must be one of the smallest, if not the very tiniest! It would be very difficult to graze sheep or cattle here! (I suspect it was rather larger in the 1800’s.) Some very large commons remain in other parts of the Cotswolds, notably near Stroud at Minchinhampton, Rodborough and Selsey Commons.

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