Commoners’ Days have been held on Effingham Common for many decades. On these special days, persons having Commoners’ Rights openly exercised those rights, a custom strongly encouraged by the Parish Council. We have a modest collection of photographs taken on these days in the period 1980-96. Two such days were held also in 2001 and 2002 but we currently have almost no information about those. There was evidently then a period of about eight years when none was held, until the custom was renewed in 2010.

The subject of Commoners’ Days featured prominently in the earliest work undertaken by ELHG back in 2010, when much of our focus was on the history of the Common and the rights established upon it. Some of this work was displayed by ELHG at its stall in Effingham’s Summer Fete of 2010.