Barnes Common
{{Short description|Organization and common land in London}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2023}}
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| name = Barnes Common
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| type = Common land
| location = Barnes, London
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| status = Local Nature Reserve
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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. Along with Barnes Green, it is one of the largest zones of common land in London with {{convert|49.55|ha|acre}} of protected commons.{{ cite web | url=http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/protected/commons/ | title=Common Land and the Commons Act 2006 | publisher=Defra | date=13 November 2012 | access-date=3 February 2013 }} It is also a local nature reserve. Facilities include a full-size football pitch and a nature trail.
The common is made up of mixed broadleaf woodland, scrubland and acid grassland and is generally flat. It is owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, acting through the Church Commissioners,{{cite web | url=http://www.richmond.gov.uk/barnes_common_management_plan_2009_to_2014-2.pdf | title=4.2. General information | publisher=London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | work=Barnes Common Management Plan 2009-14 | access-date=28 July 2013 | page=11 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702005235/http://www.richmond.gov.uk/barnes_common_management_plan_2009_to_2014-2.pdf | archive-date=2015-07-02 | url-status=dead }} 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).{{cite web|url=http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=&ID=19 |title=Barnes Common |publisher=Natural England |work=Local Nature Reserves |date=28 February 2013 |access-date=28 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808093328/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=&ID=19 |archive-date=8 August 2014 }}{{cite web | url=http://barnescommon.org.uk/ | title=Home | publisher=Friends of Barnes Common | access-date=28 July 2013}}
Mill Hill is effectively an enclave of eleven large houses (three of them listed buildings), surrounded by the Common.
Transport
Barnes railway station is just within the common. The common is served by London Buses routes 33, 72, 265 and 485.
History
= Death of Marc Bolan =
Singer and rock musician Marc Bolan died on the common on 16 September 1977 when the car carrying him as a passenger slammed into a tree,{{cite news|author= Beaumont, Mark|title=Marc Bolan's last days: how glam rock's teenage dream became a nightmare|work = The Daily Telegraph|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/marc-bolans-last-days-glam-rocks-teenage-dream-became-nightmare/|date = 14 November 2017|access-date= 12 August 2020}} at what is now Marc Bolan's Rock Shrine. He was found unconscious in the wreckage of the purple Mini, which, driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, failed to navigate a small humpback bridge, near Gipsy Lane on Queens Ride, Barnes, south-west London, lost control and struck a steel-reinforced chain link fence post, and he was pronounced dead at the scene on the arrival of paramedics near the post located in the woods.{{cn|date=August 2024}} Jones was critically injured but was conscious after the crash and survived it.
= Cricket match =
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.{{cite book |last=Buckley |first=G. B. |author-link=G. B. Buckley |title=Fresh Light on 18th Century Cricket |year=1935 |publisher=Cotterell }}
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|main_organ = On the Common (newsletter){{cite web | url=http://barnescommon.org.uk/threats-to-barnes-common/ | title=Threats to Barnes Common | publisher=Friends of Barnes Common | access-date=28 July 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130814214349/http://barnescommon.org.uk/threats-to-barnes-common/ | archive-date=2013-08-14 | url-status=dead }}
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|affiliations = affiliated to Barnes Community Association and associated with the South West London Environment Network
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{{Commons category|Barnes Common}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150702005235/http://www.richmond.gov.uk/barnes_common_management_plan_2009_to_2014-2.pdf London Borough of Richmond upon Thames: Barnes Common Management Plan 2009-14]
- [http://barnescommon.org.uk/ Barnes Common Limited]
- {{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271008758%27 |title=Map of Barnes Common|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England}}
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{{Parks and open spaces in London}}
{{LNRs in Greater London}}
{{English cricket venues to 1770}}
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Category:1736 establishments in England
Category:Common land in London
Category:Cricket grounds in Surrey
Category:Defunct cricket grounds in England
Category:Defunct sports venues in Surrey
Category:English cricket venues in the 18th century
Category:Local nature reserves in Greater London
Category:Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames