Salmon-coloured border showing Common Land – Illustration provided by Ian Mulcahy – with thanks
Note from Ian Mulcahy – 24/05/2022
“The salmon bordered areas. Compare the border colour around the common land (arrowed) with the woodland to the left, which has no salmon coloured border. This is an OS standard to mark common land (Most of Tilgate Forest is similarly bordered on the OS). Any land bordered by this colour is common land and free for all to access. If it is fenced off you have a legal right to scale the fence for access (but not to damage it). You can also collect firewood from the ground, if you so wish, but must not cut it from trees J You don’t, however, necessarily have a right to detect as common land can still be private property. If you do, I’d suggest any finds be announced as ‘found by sight’. It’s a grey area, detecting on common land, and not one I would wish to give definitive advice on. Some detector sites say it’s fine, others urge caution”