Inclosure Act 1845

XV Village Greens not to be inclosed; but Provision may be made for preserving the Surface and fixing Boundaries.

And be it enacted, That no Town Green or Village Green shall be subject to be inclosed under this Act; provided that in every Case in which an Inclosure of Lands in the Parish in which such Town Green or Village Green may be situate shall be made under the Authority of this Act it shall be lawful for the Commissioners, if they shall think fit, to direct that such Town Green or Village Green, provided such Green be of equal or greater Extent, be allotted to the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of such Parish, in trust to allow the same to be used for the Purposes of Exercise and Recreation, and the same shall be allotted and awarded accordingly, in like Manner, and with the like Provisions for making or maintaining the Fences thereof, and preserving the Surface thereof, and draining and levelling the same where Occasion shall require, as herein-after directed concerning the Allotments to be made for the Purposes of Exercise and Recreation; and such Green may be so allotted in addition to other Land which may be allotted for the Purposes of Exercise and Recreation, or, if the Commissioners shall think it sufficient, may be allotted in substitution for other Land which might have been required to be allotted for such Purposes ; and in every Case in which such Town Green or Village Green shall adjoin Land subject to be inclosed under this Act, and shall not be separated from such Land by Fences or known Bounds, the Commissioners shall, in the Provisional Order concerning such Inclosure, set out a Boundary Line between such Green and the adjoining Land, and shall in their annual General Report mention and describe such Boundary.