FORGOTTEN LAMMAS LAND.
On February 12th "Lammas Land" in some of the Home Counties becomes available for the use of the parish in general, and remains open for six months. But this once precious privilege or semi-possession is falling into lamentable disuse in some places. Even the very elect do not invariably know what Lammas Land means. In a mild dispute now in course of settlement the lawyers of a small landowner wrote to a Parish Council to ask, in effect, what Lammas. Land was or is.
Such lamentable ignorance is due to the increasing neglect of Lammas Land. Sufficiently attractive meadows open to the surrounding .population are often entirely unused; chiefly because the keeping of animals, especially horses, has been quite given up. At the same time there are people paying high rents for accommodation grazing lands in complete ignorance of the gratuitous facilities close at hand. In some cases it is becoming a real difficulty to discover whether a particular piece of land is or is not open to the parish. The owners themselves are sometimes among the uninformed.
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