Barnes Common

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Barnes Common
Broom on Barnes Common

Type	Common land
Location	Barnes, London
Area	49.55 hectares (122.4 acres)
Open	All year
Status	Local Nature Reserve^[1]

Barnes Common is a local nature reserve on common land in the south east of Barnes, London, England, adjoining Putney Lower Common to the east and bounded to the south by the Upper Richmond Road.^[2] Along with Barnes Green, it is one of the largest zones of common land in London with 49.55 hectares (122.4 acres) of protected commons.^[3] It is also a Local Nature Reserve.^[1] Facilities include a full-size football pitch and a nature trail.^[1]

The common is made up of mixed broadleaf woodland, scrubland and acid grassland and is generally flat.^[2] It is owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, acting through the Church Commissioners,^[2] and managed by the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, advised and assisted by the charity Barnes Common Limited (previously known as Friends of Barnes Common).^[1]^[2]^[4]

Mill Hill is effectively an enclave of eleven large houses surrounded by the Common, three of which are listed buildings.

Transport

Barnes railway station is just within the common. The common is served by London Buses routes 33, 72, 265 and 485.^[2]

History

Singer and rock musician Marc Bolan died on the common on 16 September 1977 when the car he was being driven in crashed into a tree,^[5] at what is now Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine.

In August 1736 the common hosted a cricket match between Surrey and London. This is the only time that a reference to the common is found in surviving cricket records.^[6]

Barnes Common Limited

Legal status	Not-for-profit membership organisation^[4]
Headquarters	Barnes Common, Barnes, London SW13 0HT
Main organ	On the Common (newsletter)^[7]
Affiliations	affiliated to Barnes Community Association and associated with the South West London Environment Network^[4]
Staff	none
Website	barnescommon.org.uk

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References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Barnes Common". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. 28 February 2013. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "4.2. General information" (PDF). Barnes Common Management Plan 2009-14. London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ "Common Land and the Commons Act 2006". Defra. 13 November 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Home". Friends of Barnes Common. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
^ Beaumont, Mark (14 November 2017). "Marc Bolan's last days: how glam rock's teenage dream became a nightmare". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
^ Buckley, G. B. (1935). Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket. Cotterell.
^ "Threats to Barnes Common". Friends of Barnes Common. Archived from the original on 14 August 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.

External links

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames: Barnes Common Management Plan 2009-14
Barnes Common Limited
"Map of Barnes Common". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England.

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Parks, open spaces and nature reserves in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

v t e Parks and open spaces in London
Royal parks	Bushy Green Greenwich Hyde Kensington Regent's Richmond St James's
Large urban parks	Alexandra Arnos Barking Barra Hall Battersea Beckenham Place Park Blackheath Brockwell Burgess Charlton Clissold Crystal Palace Dulwich Enfield Town Finsbury Forster Memorial Hampstead Heath Hanworth Holland Mayesbrook Mountsfield Old Deer Parsloes Primrose Hill Pymmes Queen's Park Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park Ravenscourt Ruskin Southwark Valentines Victoria Wandsworth Wanstead Waterlow Park West Ham Wimbledon
Country parks	Bayhurst Wood Bedfont Lakes Belhus Woods Eastbrookend Fairlop Waters Foots Cray Fryent Hainault Forest Havering High Elms Hornchurch Lee Valley South Norwood Stanmore Stockley Trent
Commons	Barnes Blackheath Bostall Heath Clapham Ealing East Sheen Eel Brook Eltham Hackney Marshes Hainault Forest Ham Hampstead Heath Hayes Keston Mitcham Monken Hadley Peckham Rye Plumstead Stanmore Streatham Sutton Tooting Tylers Wandsworth Wimbledon and Putney Winn's Woolwich Wormwood Scrubs
Village greens	Camberwell Crooked Billet Islington Kew Newington Parsons Richmond Shepherd's Bush Turnham Twickenham
Marshes and wetlands	Crayford Erith Hackney Hornchurch Ickenham Ingrebourne Leyton Rainham, Wennington, and Aveley Tottenham Walthamstow Woodberry Wetlands WWT London Wetland Centre
Woodland	Bostall Braeburn Coldfall Copse Dulwich Epping Forest Grangewood Park Highgate Lesnes Abbey Mad Bess Old Park Oxleas Park Petts Queen's Repository Woods Russia Dock Sydenham Hill
House gardens	Avenue House Belair Park Boston Manor Park Broomfield House Cannizaro Park Chiswick House Danson Park Grovelands Park Grove Park Gunnersbury Park Hall Place Hampton Court Park Hillingdon Court Kenwood House Lamorbey Park Langtons Manor House Gardens Marble Hill Park Morden Hall Park Morden Park Osterley Park Syon House Valence House Museum Walpole Park
Entry-fee charging	Kew Gardens London Wetland Centre
Community gardens	Phoenix Garden

v t e Parks and open spaces by London borough
Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kingston upon Thames Lambeth Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond upon Thames Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth City of Westminster

v t e Local nature reserves in Greater London
Barking and Dagenham	Beam Valley Beam Valley (Environment Agency) Dagenham Village Churchyard Eastbrookend Country Park Mayesbrook Park South Parsloes Park Squatts Ripple Nature Reserve Scrattons Ecopark and extension The Chase - Barking
Barnet	Big Wood and Little Wood Brent Reservoir/Welsh Harp Coppett's Wood and Scrublands Glebelands Moat Mount Open Space Oak Hill Wood Rowley Green Common Scratchwood Totteridge Fields
Bexley	Crossness Danson Park Bog Garden, Welling Foots Cray Meadows Lesnes Abbey Woods
Brent	Brent Reservoir/Welsh Harp Fryent Country Park Masons Field
Bromley	High Elms Jubilee Country Park Scadbury Park
Camden	Adelaide Belsize Wood Camley Street Natural Park Westbere Copse
Croydon	Bramley Bank Foxley Wood Hutchinson's Bank Selsdon Wood South Norwood Country Park
Ealing	Blondin Park Fox Wood Grove Farm Gunnersbury Triangle Islip Manor Meadows Litten Long Wood Northolt Manor Perivale Wood
Enfield	Covert Way
Greenwich	Gilbert's Pit Maryon Park Maryon Wilson Park Oxleas/Shooters Hill Woodlands Sutcliffe Park The Tarn
Hackney	Abney Park Cemetery Springfield Park
Hammersmith and Fulham	Wormwood Scrubs
Haringey	Alexandra Park Coldfall Wood Parkland Walk Queen's Wood Railway Fields
Harrow	Bentley Priory Stanmore Common Stanmore Country Park
Havering	Bedford's Park Cranham Brickfields Cranham Marsh Ingrebourne Valley Rainham Marshes The Chase - Havering The Manor
Hillingdon	Denham Country Park Frays Valley Gutteridge Wood and Meadows (Yeading Woods) Ruislip Local Nature Reserve Ten Acre Wood Yeading Brook Meadows
Hounslow	Bedfont Lakes Country Park Chiswick Eyot Cranebank Duke's Hollow Gunnersbury Triangle Hounslow Heath Isleworth Ait Kempton Pevensey Road
Islington	Barnsbury Wood Gillespie Park Parkland Walk
Kingston upon Thames	Bonesgate Open Space Castle Hill Coombe Hill Wood Edith Gardens Elmbridge Open Space Ham Lands Hogsmill River Park Jubilee Wood Raeburn Open Space Rose Walk Southwood Open Space Tolworth Court Farm Fields The Wood and Richard Jefferies Bird Sanctuary
Lambeth	Streatham Common
Lewisham	Beckenham Place Park Brookmill Road Burnt Ash Pond Dacres Wood Downham Woodland Walk Grove Park Nature Reserve Sue Godfrey Nature Park
Merton	Bennett's Hole Cannon Hill Common Cherry Wood Cranmer Green Derwent Floodwash Fishpond Wood and Beverley Meads Lower Wandle Merton Park Green Walks Morden Park Myrna Close Oakleigh Way Pyl Brook Ravensbury Park Sir Joseph Hood Memorial Wood Wandle Meadow Nature Park
Redbridge	Hainault Lodge
Richmond upon Thames	Barnes Common Crane Park Island Ham Common Ham Lands Lonsdale Road Reservoir (Leg of Mutton Reservoir) Oak Avenue, Hampton
Southwark	Dulwich Upper Wood Lavender Pond Nunhead Cemetery One Tree Hill Sydenham Hill Wood and Fern Bank
Sutton	Anton Crescent Wetland Belmont Pastures Cuddington Meadows Devonshire Avenue Nature Area Roundshaw Downs Ruffett and Big Woods Spencer Road Wetlands Sutton Ecology Centre Grounds The Spinney, Carshalton Wandle Valley Wetland Wilderness Island
Tower Hamlets	Ackroyd Drive Greenlink Mudchute Park and Farm Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
Waltham Forest	Ainslie Wood
Wandsworth	Battersea Park Nature Areas
Westminster	St. John's Wood Church Grounds

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Addington Hills Artillery Ground Barnes Common Barrack Field Blackheath Bourne Paddock Broadhalfpenny Down Bromley Common Caterham Common Charlwood Chelsea Common Chislehurst Common Cow Meadow Datchet Common Dripping Pan Ealing Common Epping Forest Gray's Inn Guildford Bason Horsmonden Ilford Kew Green Laleham Burway Mickleham Down Parsons Green Putney Heath Sanderstead Common Stansted Park Tothill Fields Uxbridge Moor Vine Cricket Ground Walworth Common Westerham Common Woburn Park Woolpack, Islington

English cricket venues (1726–1770)