What does "common village" mean?

[annesthreads]

The address for the family I'm looking at in Llangynider, Breconshire in 1871 is "common village". Some of the other entries have the same, some the names of farms. I'm guessing the obvious, that they lived in the village, but I've never come across this term before.

[EmyrBorth]

Hi
Haven't come across the term "common village", but I have come across the term "village". I have an interest in Beddgelert, Caernarvonshire; it seems to be the practice there, as far as Parish Registers are concerned, that they don't give the address of places within the village , but do name the farms/homesteads outside the village.
Emyr
 

[iluleah]

A village green is a common open area within a settlement. Traditionally, a village green was often common grassland at the centre of an agricultural or other rural area, so I think you are correct in it meaning the houses around the 'common' or village green, so the village itself.
Farms often had names, village houses didn't have names or numbers, they just knew who lived in which house

[annesthreads]

Thankyou both - that all makes sense!