The Traditional Lore Folkright simply describes the common law and right of the people. Anglo-Danish and Saxon in origin, it is the foundation of our freedom and the right of all freeborn, law abiding and responsible citizens of England and Wales. It relates to the English culture and conscience with natural justice, where there is a ‘duty to act fairly’. The ‘peoples right’ provided a counter balance to the powers of lordship. It was the right of the people as…
Sustainability is the ability to maintain functional resources, be they natural, mechanical, economical or simply the health of human livelihood. Protection of the British Isles and the support of its natural resources will rely upon the practices of ‘sustainability’. Our future depends upon a greater respect toward the ecological environments of wetlands, forests and agricultural lands. This includes the equilibrium of the fauna and flora of all such land. Society must regulate to develop and protect our natural resources in…
Trees and forests are a very valuable part of the environment and of the global landscape. In Britain our native woodlands have recently come under considerable threat from invasive diseases and we have almost lost several major species. It is unavoidable and by necessity that we may need to introduce an element of alien varieties to supplement these losses. The traditional English landscape has always been subject to changes as civilization applies its pressures upon the countryside. “The development of…
The meadowlands are an intrinsic part of the traditional English Landscape. Uniquely, they contain the socio bio-diverse, physical and mental pleasures of close contact with nature in all its forms. “And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair, Than the high cloudlets in the sky. And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Adlestrop by Edward…
Very little or nothing in an English landscape is entirely natural and untouched. Mankind has modified the land in some way or other to support its domination of the earth. ‘One needs to be a botanist, a physical geographer, and a naturalist, as well as an historian, to be able to feel certain that one has all the facts before allowing the imagination to play over the small details of a scene. For unless the facts are right there is…
See also Sudbury Common Rights
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