. Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor. tseems likely that the Forest boundary was adopted asthe county boundary. The Forest included, in 1298, a considerable portionof the parish of Oare, which now lies without it. Whenthis portion was disafforested is uncertain. It is knownthat the adjoining- manor of Kytemore or Culbonewas disafforested in this year, and freed from theoppression of the Forest laws : but not so Oare, orthat manor would not have been included in the per-ambulation. With the exception of this one portiontaken to create the parish of Oare, the Forest from thetime of Edward I. rema
. Records of stag-hunting on Exmoor. tseems likely that the Forest boundary was adopted asthe county boundary. The Forest included, in 1298, a considerable portionof the parish of Oare, which now lies without it. Whenthis portion was disafforested is uncertain. It is knownthat the adjoining- manor of Kytemore or Culbonewas disafforested in this year, and freed from theoppression of the Forest laws : but not so Oare, orthat manor would not have been included in the per-ambulation. With the exception of this one portiontaken to create the parish of Oare, the Forest from thetime of Edward I. remained intact for five hundredyears—a wild and dreary expanse of rough grass, with-out a fence or enclosure from end to end. At last, in 1815, an Act was passed (55 Geo. 138) for vesting in his Majesty certain parts of theForest, and for enclosing it. Herein it was recited thatthe total extent of the Forest was 22,400 acres; afigure proved by a subsequent survey to be wrong,but almost tallying with that given by the survey of. ~>^:^Ch
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