disafforestation

The process of disafforestation created considerable social unrest and riots.

In 1626 nine men were summoned to Aylesbury to resolve disafforestation issues.

It became a royal forest in Norman times, but, after its disafforestation in 1239, some settlement took place.

'The sooner the better, otherwise he'll be hearing any number of garbled stories about disafforestation from others.

The benefits of disafforestation accrued only to the owner of the lands.

Feelings were running high among the gipsies because of the imminent disafforestation of Wychwood.

Sir Miles Fleetwood was charged with surveying the lands before the disafforestation.

In 1628, King Charles sanctioned the disafforestation of the area, and during the 17th century the forest was sold in parts.

He was going to speak to James Price, the solicitor acting for him, to ask what information he had gained about the disafforestation.

Nevertheless, disafforestation of Bernwood Forest led to a gradual deforestation over subsequent centuries.

Foraging by soldiers from both sides would have made caused even more problems to local villagers exacerbating problems due to disafforestation.

In 1662, the master-forestership passed to the Crewe family and then to the Ardernes, who held it until the disafforestation in 1812.

Seb and Christian spoke until well into the night about the changes that total disafforestation would bring to the area - and to the gipsies in particular.

About 50 years later in 1628 disafforestation of Leicester Forest occurred, effectively dividing the land near Kirby Muxloe into forest and pasture.

But this measure, like a subsequent Act passed in October 1653 'for the Disafforestation, Sale and Improvement of Royal Forests', 2 proved ineffective.

Parliamentary enclosure of the bailiwicks and disafforestation of Rockingham bailiwick in 1832 resulted in a much smaller forest area with much of the land turned over to agriculture.

Horspath parish was once part of the medieval Royal Forest of Shotover, with dense woodland cover extending from Islip to Cuddesdon until "disafforestation" in 1660.

This disafforestation was confirmed by King Henry III in 1217, and in 1239 he granted the Forest of Dartmoor (and the Manor of Lydford) to his brother, Richard, Earl of Cornwall.

However, after complaints by the residents about the wildness of the area and oppression by the Stanleys, a charter confirming the disafforestation of Wirral was issued by King Edward III on 20 July 1376.

The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.

Nevertheless a decree was issued in 1632 for the "disafforestation of the Chace of Malvern, and for freeing the lands within the bounds, limits, and jurisdictions thereof, of and from the game of deer there and the forest laws."

In 1507, King Henry VII's Act of Disafforestation was a response to growing encroachment on the Royal Forests and paved the way for increased settlement within the Forests of Accrington, Bowland, Pendle, Rossendale and Trawden.

On 13 June 1627 Sir Miles Fleetwood reported to Secretary Conway that in pursuance of the 'great service' he had undertaken for the king 'in the disafforestation of several forests, which have been very chargeable and without profit or pleasure', he had completed the disafforestment of the forest of Leicestershire.