Visiting Greenham and Crookham Commons
The G&CC Act 2002 designated the commons as access land. They are open to the visiting public all day, every day. There is no entry fee, although visitors arriving by car to the main car parks are asked to make a voluntary donation.
What can and can't you do?
Like many other open spaces throughout the country, a set of Byelaws operates to control or prohibit certain activities.
The concept of access land was formalised by the Countryside and Rights of Way (CROW) Act 2000. That Act established a general right of public access to designated access land. However, to protect the land, livestock, and other users from inappropriate activities, it also includes a list (schedule 2) of activities which cause anyone doing them to lose that right of access. The Greenham and Crookham Commons Act 2002 adopted most of the CROW schedule 2 list. The amended list as it applies to the commons can be viewed here.
Access land on OS maps
The entire common is access land. However, not all of it is shown as such on the Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 maps which are the usual way of displaying access land boundaries. WBC and the Commission are working to rectify this situation.