Lancashire v Hunt

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1894
Year1894
CourtCourt of Appeal
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6 cases
  • Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 February 2005
    ...as so declared, extended to "the playing of football, rounders, cricket, and all other lawful village sports, games and pastimes". In Lancashire v Hunt 44 the claim related to an area of some 160 acres, known as Stockbridge Common Down. The main issue was the extent to which commercial trai......
  • R (Newhaven Port & Properties Ltd) v East Sussex County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 27 March 2013
  • Oxfordshire County Council v Oxford City Council
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 24 May 2006
    ...(1896) at pp 181-182) (football, rounders and cricket on 65 acres of open land on a hill outside Walton-in-Gordano in Somerset) and Lancashire v Hunt (1894) 10 TLR 310 (cricket and other games on 160 acres of Stockbridge Common Down) the courts upheld recreational customs on land which bor......
  • R (Lewis) v Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council and Another (No. 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 18 July 2008
    ...of his land and its use for recreational purpose by local inhabitants are of no real assistance. It is true that in Lancashire v Hunt [1894] 10 TLR 310, on appeal 11 TLR 49, the landowner had asserted a “right of sport, rights of digging, rights of plantation” (see per Lord Hailsham at page......
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