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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 History of the County of Somerset
… 17 From 1566 it was let to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and continued to be let until 1876. 18 In 1650 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… its situation is a lofty sloping bank rising from a forest-like seclusion; and the landscape of mountain, meadow, …
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 …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… woodland and was defined as a southern tail of Savernake forest. It remained part of the forest in 1330, when the land east and west of it was … when north of the parish the west part of Savernake forest was inclosed as Savernake great park, and later the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… part of the river Severn, and on the confines of a thick forest, it was selected as a place of strength and security. … de Montfort, son of Simon de Montfort, Robert, Earl of Leicester, and others of the confederate barons, laid siege … was made prisoner, that monarch was brought by the Earl of Leicester to Worcester, whence, together with his son, Prince …