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Perambulation noun;
is the act of walking around, surveying land, or touring. In English law, its historical meaning is to establish the bounds of a municipality by walking around it.
Perambulation may refer to:
Beating the bounds, annual custom in England and Wales of walking the boundary of one's parish
Perambulation in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, a similar practice, conducted once every seven years
The perambulation of the boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont is a meeting between the attorneys general of those two states, held once every seven years at the boundary
Perambulation of the Town Leat, medieval custom in Tiverton, Devon of following the town's water supply along the leat (watercourse) on foot to its source at Norwood Common
Bristol perambulation, a civic 'beating the bounds' process around the city of Bristol
Look up perambulation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Perambulation noun; is the act of walking around, surveying land, or touring. In English law...
events. For instance, the newspaper reports of a perambulation in 1874 indicate that the perambulation of the land boundary took two days and involved...
diverse ages" perambulated the bounds of the parish taking six days in all. At Turnworth in Dorset the parish register records the perambulation for 1747 thus:...
tried to recover the "purlieus" excluded from a forest by the Great Perambulation of 1300. Forest officers periodically fined the inhabitants of the purlieus...
knights who owned land adjoining the forest. The perambulation (known ever since as "the 1240 Perambulation") took place on 24 July 1240. It was around this...
"Perambulation". Tiverton Town Council website. White's Devonshire Directory. 1850. "Perambulation". Tiverton Town Council website. "Perambulation"....
The Istrian Demarcation or Istrian Perambulation (Croatian: Istarski razvod) is a legal document on the demarcation of territories between neighbouring...
The Flying Lizards were an experimental English new wave band, formed in 1976. They are best known for their eccentric cover version of Barrett Strong's...
wooden carrying case. The British Workman reported in 1857 about a perambulating library operating in a circle of eight villages, in Cumbria. A Victorian...
The Warrington Perambulating Library has been described by historian Ian Orton as "one of the most revolutionary library advances of the nineteenth century"...
Drayton House is a Grade I listed country house of many periods 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England. Described...
of baby transport Surveyor's wheel, a device for measuring distance Perambulation (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
Title page of William Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent (completed in 1570 and published in 1576), a historical description of Kent and the first published...
knowledge of children's character. Her best known work was The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse (1784). Dorothy was born on 17 February 1755, probably at...
John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the Brief...
youngsters of the city. They had their maskings and their merry-makings, and perambulated the streets after dark in a way [that] was no doubt amusing to themselves...
have theorized that prayers and devotions may have accompanied the perambulation of their intricate paths. Although some books (in particular guidebooks)...
of London. He produced a description of the city based on "an actual perambulation" (walk) that was published in six volumes between 1805 and 1809 and...
July 2011. Retrieved 11 February 2011. "Our gal Tilda and her magical perambulating film festival" Archived 2 December 2022 at the Wayback Machine 5 August...
the wall fell with a clatter to the floor. Gilbert picked it up. His perambulations stopped. 'It suggested the broad idea,' as he said later. His journalistic...
yelling to the walking Obama to come over. Acknowledging Roker, the perambulating president continued on, telling him "it's warm!" Roker holds the record...
alternate sitting in each: Quebec City and Toronto, in a policy known as perambulation. Logistical difficulties made this an unpopular arrangement, and although...
Society, 1950, The Place-names of Cumberland, p. 326 Thomas Denton: A Perambulation of Cumberland, 1687-8, including descriptions of Westmorland, the Isle...
Title I: The State and Its Government, is the collection of New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated which relate to the state's government as a whole...
surviving Pale were used as the crown's main military base. A book A Perambulation of Leinster, Meath, and Louth, of which consist the English Pale (1596)...
Faber and Faber, 1957; reprinted. M. R. James, Suffolk and Norfolk: A Perambulation of the Two Counties with Notices of their History and their Ancient...
commons. Plymouth Western Morning News Co. p. 72. Rowe, Samuel (1898). A perambulation of the antient and royal forest of Dartmoor and the Venville precincts...
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