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Feckenham Forest, the Glossary

Feckenham Forest was a royal forest, centred on the village of Feckenham, covering large parts of Worcestershire and west Warwickshire.^[1]

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Forests and woodlands of Warwickshire
Forests and woodlands of Worcestershire

Abbot of Evesham

The Abbot of Evesham was the head of Evesham Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Worcestershire founded in the Anglo-Saxon era of English history.

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Alcester

Alcester is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District in Warwickshire, England.

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Alvechurch

Alvechurch is a large village and civil parish in the Bromsgrove district in northeast Worcestershire, England, in the valley of the River Arrow.

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The Forest of Arden is a former forest and culturally defined area located in the English West Midlands, that in antiquity and into the Early Modern Period included much of Warwickshire, and parts of Shropshire, Staffordshire, the West Midlands, and Worcestershire.

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Assarting

Assarting is the act of clearing forested lands for use in agriculture or other purposes.

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Astwood Bank

Astwood Bank is a district within Redditch.

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Badger

Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae (which also includes the otters, wolverines, martens, minks, polecats, weasels, and ferrets).

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Bill (weapon)

A bill is a class of agricultural implement used for trimming tree limbs, which was often repurposed for use as an infantry polearm.

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Bishop of Worcester

The Bishop of Worcester is the head of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England.

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Bradley Green, Worcestershire

Bradley Green is a village in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, England.

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Bromsgrove

Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England, about north-east of Worcester and south-west of Birmingham city centre.

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Butterfly Conservation

Butterfly Conservation (BC) is a UK-wide nonprofit environmentalist organization and charity dedicated to conserving butterflies, moths, and the environment.

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Chaddesley Corbett

Chaddesley Corbett is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England.

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Chaddesley Woods National Nature Reserve

Chaddesley Woods National Nature Reserve is situated near the village of Chaddesley Corbett, in Worcestershire, England. Feckenham Forest and Chaddesley Woods National Nature Reserve are forests and woodlands of Worcestershire.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Christopher Saxton

Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 – c. 1610) was an English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales.

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Districts of Redditch

Redditch is a town and local government district in Worcestershire, England.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Droitwich Spa

Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to Droitwich) is a historic spa town in the Wychavon district in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe.

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Edward I of England

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307.

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Edward II of England

Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also known as Edward of Caernarfon or Caernarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.

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Enclosure

Enclosure or inclosure is a term, used in English landownership, that refers to the appropriation of "waste" or "common land" enclosing it and by doing so depriving commoners of their rights of access and privilege.

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Evesham

Evesham is a market town and parish in the Wychavon district of Worcestershire, in the West Midlands region of England.

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Evesham Abbey

Evesham Abbey was founded by Saint Egwin at Evesham in Worcestershire, England between 700 and 710 following an alleged vision of the Virgin Mary by a swineherd by the name of Eof.

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Exchequer of Pleas

The Exchequer of Pleas, or Court of Exchequer, was a court that dealt with matters of equity, a set of legal principles based on natural law and common law in England and Wales.

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Fairfield, Worcestershire

Fairfield is a village in the district of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.

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Fallow deer

Fallow deer is the common name for species of deer in the genus Dama of subfamily Cervinae.

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Feckenham

Feckenham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Redditch in Worcestershire, England.

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Felidae

Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.

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Fine of lands

A fine of lands, also called a final concord, or simply a fine, was a species of property conveyance which existed in England (and later in Wales) from at least the 12th century until its abolition in 1833 by the Fines and Recoveries Act.

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Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for the management of publicly owned forests and the regulation of both public and private forestry in England.

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Fox

Foxes are small-to-medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.

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Gilbert Talbot (soldier)

Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, KG (1452 – 16 August 1517 or 19 September 1518), was an English Tudor knight, a younger son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and 2nd Earl of Waterford, and Elizabeth Butler.

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Grafton Manor

Grafton Manor (13 miles north-east of Worcester and 2 1/2 miles south-west of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) was established before the Norman Conquest.

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Grafton Wood

Grafton Wood is a nature reserve near the village of Grafton Flyford, about east of Worcester, in Worcestershire, England. Feckenham Forest and Grafton Wood are forests and woodlands of Worcestershire.

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Green infrastructure

Green infrastructure or blue-green infrastructure refers to a network that provides the “ingredients” for solving urban and climatic challenges by building with nature.

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Hanbury, Worcestershire

Hanbury is a rural village in Worcestershire, England near Droitwich Spa and the M5 motorway.

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Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus Lepus.

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Henry Beauchamp, Duke of Warwick

Henry Beauchamp (22 March 142511 June 1446), 14th Earl and 1st Duke of Warwick, was an English nobleman.

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Henry II of England

Henry II, also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.

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Henry III of England

Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.

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Henry VI of England

Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453.

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Henry VII of England

Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509.

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Hewell Grange

Hewell Grange is a former country house in Tardebigge, Worcestershire, England.

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Inkberrow

Inkberrow is a village in Worcestershire, England, often thought to be the model for Ambridge, the setting of BBC Radio 4's long-running series The Archers.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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John Noake

John Noake (1816–1894) was an English journalist and antiquary, known for his writings on Worcestershire.

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Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex

Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex (1575 – 6 August 1645) was an English merchant and politician.

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Lord High Treasurer

The Lord High Treasurer was an English government position and has been a British government position since the Acts of Union of 1707.

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Lumber

Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards.

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Marten

A marten is a weasel-like mammal in the genus Martes within the subfamily Guloninae, in the family Mustelidae.

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Miles Fleetwood

Sir Miles Fleetwood of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire (died 8 March 1641) was an English office-holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1641.

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National archives

National archives are the archives of a country.

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Otter

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.

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Partridge

A partridge is a medium-sized galliform bird in any of several genera, with a wide native distribution throughout parts of Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Pheasant

Pheasants are birds of several genera within the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes.

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Privy council

A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a state, typically, but not always, in the context of a monarchic government.

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Red deer

The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.

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Redditch

Redditch is a town and borough in Worcestershire, England.

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River Arrow, Worcestershire

The River Arrow is a tributary of the River Avon and flows through Worcestershire and Warwickshire in the English Midlands.

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Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, (1 June 156324 May 1612) was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule (1603).

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Robert d'Aguiló

Robert d'Aguiló (c. 1100 – c. 1159), also known as Robert Bordet, was a Norman knight who moved from Normandy to Catalonia in the early 12th century.

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Royal forest

A royal forest, occasionally known as a kingswood, is an area of land with different definitions in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Feckenham Forest and royal forest are English royal forests.

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Sambourne

Sambourne, formerly spelled Sambourn, is a village and civil parish north-west of Coughton, south of Redditch, north-west of Stratford-upon-Avon and west of Warwick in the county of Warwickshire, England.

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Secrecy

Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals.

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Sheldon tapestries

Sheldon tapestries were produced at Britain's first large tapestry works in Barcheston, Warwickshire, England, established by the Sheldon family.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Site of Special Scientific Interest

A site of special scientific interest (SSSI) in Great Britain, or an area of special scientific interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland, is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man.

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Star Chamber

The Star Chamber (Latin: Camera stellata) was an English court that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster, from the late to the mid-17th century, and was composed of Privy Counsellors and common-law judges, to supplement the judicial activities of the common-law and equity courts in civil and criminal matters.

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Stone, Worcestershire

Stone is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England.

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Studley, Warwickshire

Studley is a large village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire, England.

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Tardebigge

Tardebigge is a village in Worcestershire, England.

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The Wildlife Trusts

The Wildlife Trusts, the trading name of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, is an organisation made up of 46 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and Alderney.

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Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry

Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry (157814 January 1640) was a prominent English lawyer, politician and judge during the early 17th century.

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Upper Bentley

Upper Bentley is a village in Worcestershire, England.

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Verderer

Verderers are forestry officials in England who deal with common land in certain former royal hunting areas which are the property of the Crown.

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Viz.

The abbreviation viz. (or viz without a full stop) is short for the Latin italic, which itself is a contraction of the Latin phrase videre licet, meaning "it is permitted to see".

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Western Rising and disafforestation riots

The Western Rising was a series of riots which took place during 1626–1632 in Gillingham Forest on the Wiltshire-Dorset border, Braydon Forest in Wiltshire, and the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire in response to disafforestation of royal forests, sale of royal lands and enclosure of property by the new owners. Feckenham Forest and Western Rising and disafforestation riots are English royal forests and history of Worcestershire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feckenham_Forest

Also known as Forest of Feckenham.

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Feckenham Forest, the Glossary

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Forests and woodlands of Warwickshire

Forests and woodlands of Worcestershire

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