The rights to graze six cattle, two horses and 10 geese on Port Meadow come with a cottage in Godstow Road.

Anyone who buys the one-bedroom property automatically becomes a Wolvercote Commoner and also qualifies for fishing rights.

Wolvercote residents have held the right to pasture cows, horses or geese on Wolvercote Common for centuries. This privilege dates back to 1279 and grazing on the common was even recorded in the Domesday Book.

Once, a Wolvercote Commoner was any householder in the parish but now only a few have registered grazing rights.

The terraced house includes an open-plan kitchen/sitting room with log burner and wooden floor plus a mezzanine floor.

The garden, which is at the front of the property, includes a summerhouse and outbuildings.

Francis Winstone-Partridge, of agents Chancellors, said: “This property offers an opportunity to live off the fat of the land.

“Not only does the owner automatically qualify as a Wolvercote Commoner, which gives them the right to graze six cattle, two horses and 10 geese but they also have piscary, or fishing, rights.

“Although we are not necessarily expecting the owners to exercise their ancient grazing rights, there are allotments which satisfy an urge to be closer to nature. But the real plus point is that there is such a strong sense of community in Wolvercote.”

Number 51 Godstow Road is on the market at £250,000. For more, or to arrange a viewing, call Chancellors on 01865 516161 or visit chancellors.co.uk