New Forest |
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Hampshire forest, wood |
includes | New Forest (19th century) |
includes | New Forest (18th century) |
includes | New Forest (17th century) |
includes | New Forest (16th century) |
includes | New Forest (11th-15th century) |
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New Forest otherwise: Nova Foresta, 1086; Noua Foresta; Ytene, 1115; Noveforest, 1154; Nova Foresta Regis, 1231 |
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refce: | Coates 1989 NEW FOREST, forest and (within this) a hundred About 1115 'prouincia Iutarum in Noua Foresta Noua Foresta quae lingua Anglorum Ytene nuncupatur' Bede, in the Ecclesiastical History puts forward the long accepted idea that there were Jutes in Hampshire at the time when Angles and Saxons were also active in the conquest. This has been disputed on archaeological grounds, but the tradition remains. Florence of Worcester (d. 1118) continues to retail the story, going so far as to call the New Forest by the tribal name 'Ytene'='Jutes'. (Cf Ekwall 1953: 132.) The forest existed as wasteland before the Conquest. The poor soils rest on Tertiary gravels and sands and can never have supported profitable farming. It was expanded by William I at the expense of more than 20 villages (cf Muir 1981); hence it was 'new' in his time as a single compact area. |
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New Forest - forest, royal forest - Hampshire |
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refce: | Colebourn 1995 |
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hearsay |
Wood of the Jutes |