6 An lUizabctlmn Survey and Domesday Book. [en. 



The present area of the parish of Forncett St Peter is 1901 acres. 

 Hut the Survey contains an account of only 1281 acres, and some 

 550 'perches' of meadow 1 . 



Messuages, cr> irdcns n8a., 2 r. 



Arabic... - 1063.1., i r. 



,low 55 a., .r., 550 'perches' | 6 - o 



fc~ loa -' lr - 'perches' 



tare M a. 



Wood 22.1., 3r. 



1 a., 550 'perches 1 



Hut measuring upon the map we get the following figures in 

 statute at 



Messuages, crofts and gardens 101 a. 



Arable 1364 a. 



Meadow, marsh and low pasture 78 a. 



Wood ... 47 a. 2 



Commons 3 11 a. 



1901 a. 



The Domesday dimensions of Fornesseta (St Mary's) are one and 

 a half miles by three-fourths of a mile. Measuring on the meridian 

 and parallel of St Mary's Church, these are very nearly the dimen- 

 sions of the present parish. The waste, in 1565, was not intersected 

 by these lines, so that no light is thrown on the question whether the 

 measurements of Uc.mesday Book included the waste land of the vill. 



The Domesday dimensions of T wanton are eleven by six furlongs. 



Curing as before on lines passing through the church, the distance 



from the eastern limit of St Peter's to the western boundary of 



precinct I. is between eleven and twelve statute furlongs; the width of 



the parish north and south is between seven and eight statute furlongs. 



The dimensions of Keklington are not given in Domesday, so 

 that the large district between precincts I. and II. and Westwood 

 some 600 acres is apparently not included in the measured area of 

 the Record. 



1 The section of the Survey relating to this pirMi is imperfect. Seven folios, describing 

 the first precinct and part of the second, are mis>ing. Hut the 1M portion can he partly 

 reconstructed from the section of the Survey in which the holdings of the tenants arc described, 

 at well as from the Court Rolls of Forncett and of Moulton manor*. The reconstruction is 

 necessarily incomplete since some land in these precincts was held of Havers manor, of which 

 we have no rolls. Moreover, as the map .shows, the south-east corner of Forncctt St Peter 

 (about 110 acres) was not surveyed, nor KM of the ' ridding ' in the north-east of 



this parish. The ridding , , .milled, and the acreage of the 



voiHHli is not stated. Thus the Survey proper (cf. al><>\r, p. i, n. 2), in its present imper- 

 fect state. account of only . ; , ' perches ' of meadow. The 

 list of tenants' holdings and the Court Rolls give information concerning 156 a. 2 r. more, 

 a total Oi 



in XII. 6 are estimated as woodland. 



