Crocker End Green Common Byelaws

HENLEY RURAL DISTRICT
COUNCIL

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CROCKEREND GREEN

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In the Parish of Nettlebed in the Rural District of
Henley, in the County of Oxford.

BYELAWS for the prevention of nuisances and the preservation of order on the Common made by the Rural District Council of Henley in pursuance of a Scheme made by them and approved by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under the Commons Act, 1899.

1. Throughout these byelaws the expression “the Council” means the Rural District Council of Henley, and the expression “the Common” means the piece of land with the ponds, streams, paths and roads thereon, commonly known as Crockerend Green situate in the Parish of Nettlebed and referred to as “the Common” in the scheme approved under the Commons Act, 1899, on the 18^th day of July, 1952, by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.

2. No person shall, without lawful authority, place and leave on the Common any road-sand, materials for repair of roads, or any wood.

3. No person shall, without lawful authority, dig, cut or take turf, sods, gravel, sand, clay or other substance on or from the Common, or cut, fell or carelessly or negligently injure any gorse, heather, timber, or other tree, shrub, brushwood or other plant growing thereon.

4. No person shall willfully, carelessly or negligently remove or carelessly or negligently injure any seat, fence or other works maintained by the Council on the Common.

5. No person shall, without lawful authority, turn out to graze or permit to graze on the Common, any cattle, sheep or other animals, and a duly authorized officer of the Council may, after due warning, remove from the Common any castle, sheep, or other animals drawn, driven or placed upon the Common in contravention of this byelaw.

6. No person shall, without lawful authority, light any fire on the Common.

7. No person shall use indecent or obscene language to the annoyance of any person on the Common.

8. No person shall, without lawful authority, break in any horse on the Common.

9. No person shall in any part of the Common willfully obstruct, disturb, interrupt, or annoy any other person in the proper use of the Common.

10. Any person offending against any of the foregoing byelaws shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.

11. A duly authorized officer of the Council may, after due warning, remove from the Common any person who within his view infringes any of the foregoing byelaws or any provision of the Vagrancy Acts.