Inglewood Forest

Coordinates: 54°47′N 2°55′W / 54.783°N 2.917°W / 54.783; -2.917
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Inglewood Forest is a large tract of mainly arable and dairy farm land with a few small woodland areas between

Carlisle and Penrith in the English non-metropolitan county of Cumbria or ancient county of Cumberland
.

Etymology

Inglewood is first attested in the forms Englewod’ (c. 1150), Engelwode (c. 1158) and Englewud (1227).

Celtic-speaking region, and sometimes part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, and English settlement or land-ownership was still unusual enough to be a distinctive feature in a place-name. Noting that the other place-names of this kind are in places that were border areas between English-speaking and Britonnic-speaking cultures, Jayne Carroll and John Baker suggest that "this is perhaps not a case of a 'minority population' name, but one used with a particular political significance to mark a borderland area".[2]

History

Soon after the

wild boars
.

The forest boundaries changed many times and included at one time most of the Cumberland

Hutton-in-the-Forest. Higham[3]
places the "core of the forest between the
Chalk Beck and the River Petteril
, in particular the townships and civil parishes of Dalston, Sebergham, Hesket, Mungrisdale, Catterlen, Hutton, Skelton, and Castle Sowerby".

The forest ultimately belonged to the

Henry VIII the forest laws were repealed and Inglewood ceased to be a royal forest although it is still to this day marked on maps as such".[4]

The borough and city of Carlisle (the area within the city walls) was outside the forest though Penrith was within it and was the main administrative centre and market town for the southern part of the region.

Peel towers
.

Grid reference Name Location NHLE Sources for "peel"/"pele"
NY505458 Armathwaite Castle Armathwaite 1145496 Pevsner;[5] Ordnance Survey[6]
NY476384 Brackenburgh Tower Calthwaite 1145499 Pevsner; see Perriam and Robinson[7]
NY478320 Catterlen Hall Catterlen 1012829 Pevsner
NY475524 Cote House Wetheral 1111822 Perriam and Robinson,[8] and also Pevsner, say Bastle house; Ordnance Survey[6]
NY376515 Dalston Hall Dalston 1087441 Ordnance Survey[6]
NY551367 St Cuthbert's Church Great Salkeld 1100260 RIBA[9]
NY403433 High Head Castle Ivegill Perriam and Robinson
NY518302 Hutton Hall Penrith 1326922 NHLE;[10] see Perriam and Robinson[7]
NY460357 Hutton in the Forest near Skelton 1210817 Pevsner
NY433509 Newbiggin Hall St Cuthbert Without 1087720 Pevsner
NY396436 Thistlewood Ivegill 1326687 Pevsner; see Perriam and Robinson[7]
NY433499 Woodside St Cuthbert Without see Perriam and Robinson[7]

Literature

The Forest is the setting of many of the adventures in the late medieval

chivalric romances.[11] Around the same time, Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Chronicle (written c. 1420) claims the forest as the original setting of the Robin Hood legend:[4]

Lytil Jhon and Robyne Hude
Wayth-men ware commendyd gude
In Yngil-wode and Barnysdale
Thai oysyd all this tyme thare trawale.

According to legend, Inglewood Forest is also home to the outlaws

Child Ballad
116.

Honour of Penrith

The

Lady of the Manor or Honour was Queen Catherine of Braganza, consort of Charles II
.

William III gave the lands belonging to the manor to his friend William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland whose descendants later sold them to their relatives the Cavendish family.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Close Rolls, March 1244". British History Online. Retrieved 20 September 2020. (reference for the Englewud spelling) Mandatum est Roberto de Ros, justiciario foreste, quod in foresta de Englewud' faciat habere vicecomiti Cumberl' x. quercus ad reparandam et lambruscandam capellam in castro regis Karleoli. Teste ut supra.
  2. ISBN 9789004349490
    .
  3. ^ Higham, N. J. (1986), "The Origins of Inglewood Forest" (PDF), TCWAAS, 86: 85–100
  4. ^ a b Bain, Joseph, ed. (1884). Calendar of documents relating to Scotland, volume 2, 1272-1307. H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh.
  5. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1967). Cumberland and Westmorland. Yale University Press.
  6. ^ a b c Labelled as a Peel on 1:25000 Ordnance Survey maps
  7. ^ a b c d For these entries, Perriam and Robinson list sources for "Peel" without comment
  8. ^ Perriam, Denis; Robinson, John (1998). The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria. CWAAS.
  9. ^ Royal Institute of British Architects. "St Cuthbert, Great Salkeld, Cumbria: the pele tower". Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  10. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1326922)". National Heritage List for England.
  11. ^ Sean Pollack, 'Border States: Parody, Sovereignty, and Hybrid Identity in "The Carl of Carlisle"', Arthuriana, 19.2 (summer 2009), 10-26 (p. 10).
  12. ^ Winchester, Angus; Straughton, Eleanor. "Cumbrian Manorial Records". Lancaster University. Retrieved 12 March 2022.

Sources

  • Parker, F.H.M. (1905). "Inglewood Forest : part 1". Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 2nd series. 5. Carlisle: The Society: 35–61.
  • Parker, F.H.M. (1906). "Inglewood Forest : part 2". Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 2nd series. 6. Carlisle: The Society: 159–170.
  • Parker, F.H.M. (1907). "Inglewood Forest : part 3". Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 2nd series. 7. Carlisle: The Society: 1–30.
  • Parker, F.H.M. (1909). "Inglewood Forest : part 4". Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 2nd series. 9. Carlisle: The Society: 24–37.
  • Parker, F.H.M. (1910). "Inglewood Forest : part 5-6". Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 2nd series. 10. Carlisle: The Society: 1–28.
  • Parker, F.H.M. (1911). "Inglewood Forest : part 7". Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. 2nd series. 11. Carlisle: The Society: 1–37.

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