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===Ownership and management of the heath=== {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1871 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of the United Kingdom | long_title = An Act to confirm a scheme under "The Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866," relating to Blackheath. | year = 1871 | citation = [[34 & 35 Vict.]] c. lvii | introduced_commons = | introduced_lords = | territorial_extent = | royal_assent = 29 June 1871 | commencement = | expiry_date = | repeal_date = | amends = | replaces = | amendments = | repealing_legislation = | related_legislation = [[Metropolitan Commons Act 1866]] | status = | legislation_history = | theyworkforyou = | millbankhansard = | original_text = https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/34-35/57/pdfs/ukla_18710057_en.pdf | revised_text = | use_new_UK-LEG = | UK-LEG_title = | collapsed = yes }} Under the '''{{visible anchor|Metropolitan Commons Supplemental Act 1871}}''' ([[34 & 35 Vict.]] c. lvii), the management of the heath passed by statute to the [[Metropolitan Board of Works]]. Unlike the commons of Hackney, Tooting Bec and Clapham, its transfer was agreed at no expense, because the [[Earl of Dartmouth]] agreed to allow the encroachment to his manorial rights. It is held in trust for public benefit under the [[Metropolitan Commons Act 1866]] ([[29 & 30 Vict.]] c. 122). It passed to the [[London County Council]] in 1889, then to the [[Greater London Council]], then in 1986 to the two boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham, as to their respective extents. No trace can be found of use as common land but only as minimal fertility land exploited by its manorial owners ([[manorial waste]]) and mainly for small-scale mineral extraction. Main freeholds (excluding many roads) vest in the Earl of Dartmouth and, as to that part that was the Royal Manor of Greenwich, the [[Crown Estate]]. The heath's chief natural resource is gravel, and the freeholders retain rights over its extraction.
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