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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… Village Map Woodnewton is a parish of 565 hectares in the Forest of Rockingham. The village lies on the N. side of …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the road formed part of the early boundary of Wychwood forest and its crossing point of the Glyme at Old Woodstock … to an ancient right to Whitsuntide timber from Wychwood forest probably related to traditional grants from the park, …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a royal hunting lodge established on the edge of Wychwood forest in the Anglo-Saxon period. The site, on the north bank …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 12 Until 1300 the parish lay within the bounds of the Forest of Dean, which embraced Tidenham Chase, 13 and in 1170 receipts from forest pleas included 6 s. 8 d. from the men of Aluredston. … was committed to the care of the Commissioners of Dean Forest in order to check the felling of timber, coal-mining, …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… lay in 1273 within Tidenham Chase, regarded as part of the Forest of Dean in the 13th century. 11 The ground above the … employment in the woods, quarries, and coal mines of the Forest of Dean and Tidenham Chase, but the isolation of the … Henry le Passur, was said to carry poachers out of the Forest of Dean, 78 and the ferry was presumably used by …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… 9. Hockaday Abs. ccccxvi; T. Bright, Rise of Nonconf. in Forest of Dean, 36. G.D.R. vol. 383, no. cxxxvii. Hockaday …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… its situation is a lofty sloping bank rising from a forest-like seclusion; and the landscape of mountain, meadow, … hundred of Kingsbridge, Swindon and N. divisions of Wilts, 36 miles (N. by W.) from Salisbury, and 87 (W.) from … what is requisite for the supply of the inhabitants. The Wilts and Berks canal passes within half a mile to the south …
A History of the County of Oxford
… Part of the western boundary passed through the royal forest of Wychwood. The landscape varies from the flat …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at Witney and Oxford. Many parishes lay within the royal forest of Wychwood and some, notably North Leigh, had the dispersed settlement pattern typical of forest areas; many were affected by intercommoning and other forest customs. In the Anglo-Saxon period Eynsham was an …