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National Forest Estate Statutory Boundary for Forest of Dean

Summary

The Statutory Forest of Dean has existed since Norman times. Originally an area reserved for the King and his chosen few to hunt within, the Statutory Forest became defined as an area where the soil, timber or herbage belonged to the Crown and was controlled with the imposition of harsh Forest Laws. Within these forests, none could reside or own land and the rights at Common Law of the local inhabitants were severely restricted. When last legally defined in 1833, this was still assumed with some caveats, but the subsequent formalisation of encroachments and continuing sales of land mean today some 20% of land within the Statutory Forest is privately owned land – the remainder is managed as the Crown Forest Estate by the Forestry Commission.

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Use limitation statement

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Licence

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Attribution statement

Contains OS data © Crown copyright [and database right] [year].

Technical information

Update frequency

notPlanned

Lineage

This boundary was digitised by Estates staff in the Forest of Dean some years ago, modified recently in format only.

Spatial information

Geographic extent

  • Latitude from: 51.655258 to 51.874189
  • Longitude from: -2.710229 to -2.426398
Metadata information

Language

English

Metadata identifier

8e890c99-d5ce-4d32-b8bb-2850a7eff5a0


Published by

Forestry Commission


Dataset reference dates

Creation date

01 April 2000

Revision date

03 September 2015

Publication date

N/A

Period

  • From: 03 September 2015
  • To: 03 September 2015

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