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In Hungerford, Commoners' Lists are updated each year. They comprise the "List of the several owners of Common Rights on the Hungerford Common Port Down, in the Borough and Manor of Hungerford, and on Freeman's Marsh in the Manor of Sanden Fee, Hungerford, in the County of Berks, with the names of the present occupiers of the Tenements to which such Rights are appendant, and the number of Commons belonging to each.

Commoners' Lists are  extant covering a great span of time. Many of these have now been  transcribed, and are available on-line. The records are  largely recorded  in the same sequence from year to year. Along with the Quit Rent rolls, they  have greatly helped our  investigation of the early owners and  tenants of key properties in the High Street and Bridge Street.

The original Commoners' Lists are available at the Berkshire Record Office (H/AHo)

Transcriptions of Commoners' Lists are available (as pdf) for all the following years listed (1781-1983). Tthose marked with "scan" also have the original documents available on-line as pdfs):

- 1781 (scan)
- 1807
- 1843 (scan)
- 1847 (scan) (BRO H/AHo 2)
- 1861 (scan)
- 1896
- 1901 (scan) (BRO H/AHo 4B)
- 1914 (scan) (BRO H/AHo 6)
- 1947
- 1952
- 1956
- 1963
- 1968
- 1970
- 1976
- 1983
- 2000
- 2011

See also:
- Quit Rent rolls

Updated: 9.5.2011

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