Far from Nottinghamshire’s main roads and motorways, Laxton would be any other sleepy country village, but for a system of land management that is straight out of the medieval period.
Laxton has the last open field system in Europe, where the village’s three fields are divided into strips and farmed by different landowners.
It’s not easy to explain, but there’s a heritage centre at the Dovecote pub in the village explaining everything you need to know.
