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NOTES ON INGLEWOOD FOREST. 
By JOHN JACKSON. 
(Read at Dalston. ) 
[The following Notes on Inglewood Forest have been chiefly gleaned from 
the county Histories and other books ; some few are original.—J. J.] 
THE Ancient Forest of Englewood, or Inglewood, long formed 
part of the domain of the Crown of England. At a very 
early time it was described as “a goodly great forest, full of 
wood, red deer and fallow, wild swine, and all manner of wild 
beasts.”* In the reign of William Rufus it was uncultivated, 
and the soil neglected for some years after this period, except in 
the immediate neighbourhood of Carlisle. William therefore sent 
a body of men from the South of England to instruct the natives 
in the art of cultivating the soil, and making it contribute to their 
subsistence. 
Inglewood Forest comprises part of Leath Ward, Allerdale 
Ward below Derwent, and Cumberland Ward, and includes the 
whole or most part of eighteen parishes.t In a perambulation of 
the boundaries of the Forest by the Commissioners of Edward I., 
in the twenty-ninth year of his reign, they were declared to be as 
follows :—“‘ Beginning at the bridge of Caldew, without the city of 
Carlisle, and so by the highway unto Thursby towards the south ; 
* Jefferson’s Leath Ward, p. 7. , 
+ Given in Nicolson and Burn’s Westmorland and Cumberland, 
