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Inglewood Forest is a large tract of mainly arable and dairy farm land with a few small woodland areas between Carlisle and Penrith in the English non-metropolitan county of Cumbria or ancient county of Cumberland. ==History== Soon after the Norman conquest of England this area became a Royal Forest. The word forest in this sense did not necessarily mean a wooded area but one that was set aside for hunting though several areas of Inglewood were heavily wooded. The animals that were hunted in this area were mainly deer and wild boars. Inglewood means the "Wood of the English or Angles": although Cumbria is usually thought of as a Celtic region, Angles did migrate here before the Viking Invasions and the rule of the area by the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde, and the name suggests significant numbers had settled here. The forest boundaries changed many times and included at one time most of the Cumberland wards of Leath and Cumberland but the core or heart of the forest was the parishes of Hesket-in-the-Forest, Skelton and Hutton-in-the-Forest. Andrew of Wyntoun's ''Orygynale Chronicle'' (written c.1420) places the forest as the original setting of the Robin Hood legend, the following is taken from the chronicle:〔Joseph Bain (ed.), ''Calendar of documents relating to Scotland'', volume 2.〕 :"''Lytil Jhon and Robyne Hude'' :''Wayth-men ware commendyd gude'' :''In Yngil-wode and Barnysdale'' :''Thai oysyd all this tyme thare trawale.''"〔 The forest ultimately belonged to the English Crown and was governed by the strict Forest Law exercised by wardens. In the reign of Henry VIII the forest laws were repealed and Inglewood ceased to be a Royal Forest although it is still to this day marked on maps as such".〔 The borough and city of Carlisle (the area within the city walls) was outside the forest though Penrith was within it and was the main administrative centre and market town for the southern part of the region. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inglewood Forest」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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