A perambulation of the afforestation of

BRAYDON FOREST – AD 1228

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The Lost Forest Chronicles | Chapter III

“Three years later the 1225 disafforestation charter was revoked by Henry III (1216-72), and a new perambulation incorporated a larger area of around 13,000 hectares within the bounds of Braydon Forest, including a number of villages which had lain outside the limits of the 1225 perambulation.” – Carenza Lewis: Braydon: a study of settlement in a parish-edge forest; Patterns of the Past by Christopher Taylor.

At this point the forest was at its largest surviving documented legal extent, but may not have fully represented the full extent of the forest first legally defined soon after the conquest by William I (1066-87) and expanded during the reigns of William II (1087-1100), Henry I (1100-34) and Henry II (1154-89).

The images presented here form a subset of the complete work.