Where in the UK do people live on land that doesn't belong to them, but also doesn't belong to anyone else (individual, company or Crown), and this non-belonging was proved in court at the request of the people who had bought it and given it up? (Risks to national security aren't new - this was regarded as one over 80 years ago.)

queproblema

Copy and paste: Whiteway Colony is a settlement in the Cotswolds in the parish of Miserden near Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. It was set up in 1898 by Tolstoyan anarchists who purchased 40 acres (162,000 m²) of land, then burnt the property deeds on the end of a pitchfork in a symbolic rejection of the notion of property, and then went to court to prove that nobody owned the legal title. The property still exists today. Whiteway Colony is still in existence today and houses, among others, descendants of its original settlers. Though it no longer has an explicitly anarchist character, today's residents are aware, and proud, of its origins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteway_Colony Nov 27 10, 7:15 PM

Baloo55th

Yay!! Many people now think of Tolstoy as the author of very long novels, and have no idea of his other works and bees in the bonnet. I don't think you could just burn the deeds now - what with the Land Registry and all. Maybe you could. I'm not burning mine. Nov 28 10, 10:04 AM