Forest of Essex

About

The Forest of Essex was a royal forest that existed from around 1100 and was disestablished in the 13th century.

Forests were legal institutions introduced by the Normans to denote an area where the King or another magnate had the right to keep and hunt deer and make Forest Law. Initially there was a very weak correlation between the extent of the legal forest and what might be termed the 'physical forest', the often wooded common land areas where the deer lived. In later centuries there was a much stronger correlation, so much so that the word forest is now taken to mean the same as woodland.

Huginn is scouting Forest of Essex for you — this takes a few seconds the first time.