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gate on the Exford Road at the edge of the North 

 Common), " thence straight to the Dermark " (prob- 

 ably the gate at the edge of the North Common 

 leading into the eastern branch of Gipsy Lane), and 

 so on by the lane to Honeymead Post and by 

 Redstone, and down to the Exe, up Orchard Combe 

 to the bend in the road at Spraccombe Head, and 

 along the road to Alderman's Barrow, thence straight 

 to Black Barrow — there is a line of bound stones 

 there still — then right on across Mill Hill to the foot 

 of Lillescombe, by Robbers' Bridge, and up the 

 combe and along the road to Fistones, which must 

 have been at the head of Deddycombe, and so on 

 to County Gate, and round by the County boundary 

 to Willingford. This, it will be seen, disafforested 

 the whole of Exford, Hawkridge, and that part of 

 Winsford which had formerly been included, and all 

 Withypool except Landacre Farm. 



Landacre was a continual source of trouble, and 

 the Fugels and Beres, who owned it, were continually 

 before the Forest Court for enclosing and cultivating 

 land. We do not know all that happened in those 

 dark days, but we know them to have been a time of 

 strife all over England between the foresters and the 

 farmers, who complained that the foresters kept too 

 many underlings who exceeded their powers, and 

 extorted money and collected corn and lambs and 

 little pigs, and in particular that they collected corn 

 and brewed it into beer, and suffered no one else to 

 brew any beer till the foresters had sold all theirs. 



