Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT - September 12th to September 16th, 2022 (strips #4871 to #4875)
pwhodges:
A "green" would typically be a distinct grassy area neither privately owned (which would be part of a garden, or a field) nor otherwise enclosed (such as a park) - most often an area in the centre of a village with (stereotypically) the church on one side and maybe a village shop or in olden times a baker or blacksmith on another. The green might be used for communal activities such as a fair or a cricket match (depending on size, of course). Sometimes a village green may survive even when a village has become absorbed into a larger conurbation, or its name may survive even after the green itself has gone - which is the case at Willesden, a suburb of London which I once lived near (in that case there is a "Willesden Green" station).
In England surviving village greens have legal protection based on a defined modest amount of continuing community use, in the same way that public footpaths do.
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