Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOOLMER FOREST

WOOLMER FOREST, a Crown forest chiefly in Hants but partly in Sussex; extending from N to S, between Selborne and Bramshott; and measuring about 7 miles by 2½. It has belonged to the Crown from a period before the Norman conquest; is partly enclosed for navy timber; shows some diversities of hilland dale; and figures much in White's "Natural History of Selborne."


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a Crown forest"   (ADL Feature Type: "reserves")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC       Sussex AncC

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