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Registered Charity
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Windsor Great Park – a Royal Mediaeval Forest. |
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Forest – the old meaning of forest is as an extensive area of
roughland on which the king or major landowner had the right to keep
deer for hunting. These areas were subject to stringent laws to
preserve the game.
It was the Normans who formalised the concept of a Forest. One of
the first was the New Forest established by William the Conqueror.
Such areas were often not the sole property of the king but also had
landowners and people with common-rights.
Some of our most important ancient tree sites are mediaeval forests
– the New Forest, Sherwood Forest, Windsor Forest, Epping Forest,
Hainault Forest, Hatfield Forest to name a few. |
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