Question

describe the importance of common land to the english countryside peasants

Answer 1

Poohsticks Bridge in Ashdown Forest, an area of common land.
Common land is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.[1]

A person who has a right in, or over, common land jointly with another or others is called a commoner.[2]