THE FOREST OF EXMOOR. 



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Hamme, deputy of Sabina Peche, keeper of the Forest, 

 Gilbert de la Putte, verderer, and others. 

 The survey was as follows : — 



EXPLANATION. 



The survey began at County 

 Gate, above Glenthorne, and fol- 

 lowing the present main road east- 

 ward, reached " Fistone " (? Finis 

 Stone), where Deddycombe cot 

 stood, and where Culbone parish 

 crosses the main road at its 

 junction with Oare. The bound- 

 ary then proceeded eastward, but 

 on the south side of the main 

 road to the head of the combe, 

 ROW known as Lillycombe, where 

 it descended to Wear Water 

 (which becomes Oare Water), fifty 

 yards above Robbers' Bridge. 

 The boundary then went straight 

 up over to Mill or Middle Hill, 

 which it crossed at its ridge to 

 Blackbarrovv, thence making a bee 

 line over what now forms part of 

 Porlock Common, till it reached 

 " Alderman's" Barrow. 



"Alderman's" Barrow is doubt- 

 less a corruption of Osmund's 

 Barrow. Osmund held the parish 

 of Culbone at the time of the 

 Norman invasion, and was then 



ORIGINAL. 



*' From a certain place called 

 Cornesyete along a certain road 

 between the King's demesne and 

 the fee of William de Kytemore, 

 to the stones called Fistones ; and 

 so going down by a certain duct 

 called Lillescombe to Ore Water ; 

 and thence going down on the 

 further side of the heath ground 

 to a mountain called Blakebergh ; 

 thence to Osmundbergh hill ; 



