Editing Village green (section)

==Examples==
===United States===
[[File:NewHavenGreenCTSouvenirPic1919-1.jpg|thumb|New Haven Green, {{Circa|1919}}]]
An example of a town green is the [[New Haven Green]] in [[New Haven]], [[Connecticut]]. New Haven was founded by settlers from England and was the first [[Planned community|planned city]] in the United States. Originally used for grazing livestock, the Green dates from the 1630s and now lies at the heart of [[downtown New Haven|the city centre]].

The largest green in the U.S. is a mile in length and can be found in [[Lebanon, Connecticut]].{{cn|date=February 2025}} This is the only village green in the United States still used for agriculture.{{cn|date=February 2025}} One of the most unusual examples is the [[Dartmouth College]] Green in [[Hanover, New Hampshire]], which was owned and cleared by the college in 1770. The college, not the town, still owns it and surrounded it with buildings as a sort of collegiate quadrangle in the 1930s, although its origin as a town green remains apparent.

An example of a traditional American town green exists in downtown [[Morristown, NJ]]. The [[Morristown Green]] dates from 1715 and has hosted events ranging from executions to clothing drives.

There are two places in the United States called Village Green: [[Village Green-Green Ridge, Pennsylvania]], and [[Village Green, New York]]. Some [[New England]] towns, along with some areas settled by New Englanders such as the townships in the [[Connecticut Western Reserve]], refer to their [[town square]] as a village green. The village green of Bedford, New York, is preserved as part of [[Bedford Village Historic District]].

===Europe===
[[File:Finchingfield village green (geograph 2496080).jpg|thumb|[[Finchingfield]] village green]]
A notable example of a village green is that in the village of [[Finchingfield]] in Essex, England, which is said to be "the most photographed village in England".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.essexlive.news/whats-on/whats-on-news/essexs-most-picturesque-villages-amazing-2953840 |website=Essex Live |access-date=16 February 2021|title=Nine of Essex's most picturesque villages with these amazing country pubs |date=15 August 2019 }}</ref> The green dominates the village, and slopes down to a duck pond, and is occasionally flooded after heavy rain. The small village of [[Car Colston]] in [[Nottinghamshire]], England, has two village greens, totaling 29 acres (12 ha),<ref>Good Pub Guide [http://www.thegoodpubguide.co.uk/pub/view/Royal-Oak-NG13-8JE Retrieved 2 April 2016.]</ref> and the village of [[Burton Leonard]] in [[North Yorkshire]] has three.

The [[Open Spaces Society]] states that in 2005 there were about 3,650 registered greens in England covering {{convert|8150|acres|0|abbr=on}} and about 220 in [[Wales]] covering about {{convert|620|acres|0|abbr=on}}.

[[File:The large green village of Zuidlaren.JPG|thumb|A village green in Zuidlaren, [[Netherlands]]]]
The northern part of the province of [[Drenthe]] in the [[Netherlands]] is also known for its village greens. [[Zuidlaren]] is the village with the largest number of village greens in the Netherlands.

The [[Błonia Park]], originally established in the Middle Ages, is an example of a large village green in [[Kraków]], Poland.

===Indonesia===
In [[Indonesia]], especially in [[Java]], a similar place is called ''Alun-Alun''. It is a central part of Javanese village architecture and culture.