Protecting the Common Lands
Customary Property Rights Alan Shelley represents commoners and landowners of common lands in Gloucestershire. He is Hon. Conservator of Highleadon Green in the Forest of Dean. Alan is a freeman commoner with inherited grazing rights over lands at Sudbury, Suffolk. (He is an executive and Trustee of the borough freemen). An early knowledge of the countryside began with membership of the Middlesex ‘Young Farmers Club’ at Hatch End. In the mid nineteen fifties he studied farm estate management at Plumpton…