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Bernwood Forest at AllExperts (336 words) |
 | Bernwood was one of several forests of the ancient kingdom of England and was a Royal hunting forest. |
| It is thought to have been set aside as Royal hunting land when the Anglo-Saxon kings had a palace at Brill in the 10th century and was a particularly favoured place of Edward the Confessor, who was born in nearby Islip. |
| King Henry II prepared a map of the forest at the time which is an invaluable tool in helping define its ancient boundaries, however his purpose for drawing the map was to divide the forest up among his nobility. |
| whittlewoodproject (4058 words) |
| By implication, this became the southernmost boundary of Whittlewood Forest, and the surviving documentary evidence appears to confirm that this was indeed the case. |
| At the forest eyre of 1286 the vill of Falcutt near Helmdon was amerced for forest offences, and in both 1255 and 1286 the inhabitants of places such as Astwell, Bradden, Slapton, Wappenham and Whitfield were required to conduct inquiries into breaches of forest law that had occurred within the forest. |
| The core of the forest consisted of the king’s demesne woods of Handley, Hazelborough, Puxley, Shrob, Silverstone, and Wakefield, and the woods belonging to the lord of Greens Norton. |
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