Town or village green registrations

The Open Spaces Society has been defending open spaces in England and Wales since 1865.

A history of successful town or village green registrations

Chadderton Field, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, registered 2011
Chadderton Field, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, registered 2011

I’m delighted to report that our 2-year battle to save our field has been successful. The whole field is safe from development and the only part of it that could be built on is now registered village green ....... without the help and support of you all at the society we would not have come to understand the law or process sufficiently to achieve this outcome.

2024

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • One Tree Hill, Surrey

We are aware of the following new green registrations

  • The Celtic, Barrow in Furness
  • Gooshays, Harold Hill (voluntary registration)
  • New Zealand Way, Rainham (voluntary registration)
  • Wennington Green, Wennington Village (voluntary registration)
  • Taunton Road, Harold Hill (voluntary registration)
  • Fleet Close Play Site, Upminster (voluntary registration)
  • Aldenham Village Green, Hertfordshire

2023

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Stoke Lodge, Bristol
  • Stokes Field, Long Ditton, Surrey (voluntary registration)

We are aware of the following new green registrations

  • Quantock Drive, Ashford, Kent
  • Llwyneinion Woods, Wrexham

2022

We are aware of the following new green registrations:

  • Long Meadow, Barton, Hampshire
  • Day's Lock, Dorchester, Oxfordshire (voluntary registration)
  • Dyke Hills, Dorchester, Oxfordshire (voluntary registration)
  • Portishead Golf Course, Portishead, North Somerset (voluntary registration)

2021

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Dartmouth Community Orchard, Devon (voluntary registration)

We are aware of the following new green registration:

  • Nunthorpe, Middlesborough

2020

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Freeman's Wood, Lancaster.
  • Whimbrel Village Green, Kent. (voluntary registration)
  • Freemans Meadow, Henley-on-Thames, south Oxfordshire (voluntary registration)
  • Coral Springs, Witney, west Oxfordshire (voluntary registration)
  • Scorton, North Yorkshire (voluntary registration)

2019

We have helped our members to register the following green:

  • Kingsmead Field, Canterbury, Kent. (voluntary registration)

2018

We have helped our members to register the following green:

  • Sutton Village Green, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire

2017

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Claverham Village Green, North Somerset
  • Colston’s Field, Bristol
  • Herston Fields, Swanage, Dorset
  • Widmer Fields, Buckinghamshire (voluntary registration)

2016

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Oval Field, Selsey, West Sussex
  • Woughton Park, Old Woughton, Milton Keynes
  • Passmore Village Green, Old Woughton, Milton Keynes

2015

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Castle Acre Green, Norton, Swansea
  • Glebe Field, Goudhurst, Kent
  • Humpty Hill, Faringdon, Oxon
  • Moorside Fields  (see subsequent Supreme Court judgment 2019)
  • Oval Green, Lockerley, Hampshire
  • The Leaze, Nympsfield, Gloucestershire
  • The Old Putting Green, Montefiore Avenue, Ramsgate, Kent (Thanet District Council, voluntary registration)

2014

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Fisherman’s Beach, Hythe, Kent
  • Harwich Green, Essex
  • Patchyn Plant, Maes-y-Deri, Talybont, Ceredigion
  • The Field adjacent to Ursuline Drive, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent
  • The Green, Dunval Road, Bridgnorth, Shropshire
  • The Greens, Penn & Tylers Green, Buckinghamshire
  • Ael y Bryn, Pentyrch, Cardiff (voluntary registration)

2013

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Benslow Field, Hitchin, Herts
  • Birds Marsh, Chippenham, Wiltshire
  • Coombe Wood, Thundersley, Essex
  • Court Lodge Green, Lyminge, Kent
  • Four Acres Green, East Malling, Kent
  • Fusilier Field, Longbenton, North Tyneside
  • Highfield Road, Castle Park, Whitby
  • Land at Loughton, Milton Keynes
  • Memorial Playing Fields, Steyning, West Sussex
  • Land at Myton Lane, Warwick, Warks
  • Prince Consort Gardens, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
  • Tannen Land, Strete, Devon
  • The Field behind Purlewent Drive, Weston, Bath
  • Willow Road Green, Larkfield, Kent
  • Woburn Road, Launceston, Cornwall

2012

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Brighton Road Open Space, Holland on Sea, Clacton on Sea, Essex
  • Church Bridge Field, Dorrington, Shropshire
  • Clayton Fields, Huddersfield
  • Grove Wood, Bristol
  • Oundle Road, Weldon, Northamptonshire
  • The Green, Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire
  • Waterside at St Albans, Hertfordshire
  • Yeadon Banks, Leeds
  • Ridgeway Green, Lisvane, Cardiff

2011

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Austin Rise, Lickey Hills, Worcestershire
  • Chadderton Field, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • Herbrand Walk Beach, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
  • King’s Stairs Gardens, London Borough of Southwark
  • Land at Flashes Lane, Ness, Cheshire West & Chester
  • Lower Park, Palk Close, Shaldon, Devon
  • Littletown Green, Honiton, Devon
  • Sugary Green, Dartmouth, Devon
  • The Dell, Fetcham, Surrey
  • The Kayles, Wraysbury, Windsor & Maidenhead
  • The Old School Field, Haltwistle, Northumberland
  • Westbrook Promenade, Margate, Kent
  • Whitchurch Green, Bristol

2010

We have helped our members to register the following greens:

  • Barra Close, Highworth, Swindon
  • Camping Close, Linton, Cambridgeshire
  • Coatham Common, Redcar, Redcar & Cleveland
  • Conistone Village, Grassington, Yorkshire
  • Days Green, Capel St Mary, Ipswich, Suffolk
  • Land at Shaftesbury Avenue, Blackburn with Darwen
  • Oak Tree Meadow, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire
  • Sherwood Lake, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
  • Sturgess Fields, Kedleston Road, Derby
  • The Back Green, Sunnybank, Warlingham, Surrey
  • The Green, Hadley, Telford
  • Warneford Meadow, Oxford
  • Wishing Fields, Brixham, Torbay
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