Hands Off Hartlebury Common

McCarron, if you had a clue to what you were on about you'd see that the law also states that, under that act, if no owner could be found the land would be refered to the commons commisioner 'shall direct the registration authority to register as the owner of the land the local authority' - the local authority being 'if the land is in a parish or community where there is a parish or community council, that council...' or 'if the land is in a London borough, the council of that borough' OR 'in any other case, the council of the district in which the land is situated'.
So it doesn't matter a damn whether the church couldn't be proven owners or if the paperwork rumoured to exist wasn't enough to prove ownership, because of the 1965 act, Stourport Urban District council were awarded ownership of the common as an urban common by the commission.