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ARDEN, FOREST OF

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ARDEN, FOREST OF

ARDEN, See also:
FOREST
FOREST OF , a See also:

DISTRICT

district in the See also:

north of See also:

WARWICKSHIRE

Warwickshire, See also:

England, the " woodland " as opposed to the " felden," or "fielden," i.e. open See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, in the See also:

south, the See also:

RIVER

river See also:

AVON

Avon separating the two. Originally it was See also:

PART

part of a forest See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of far wider extent than that within the confines of the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, and now, though lacking the true See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of a forest, it is still unusually well wooded. The undulating See also:

SURFACE

surface ranges for the most part from 250 to 500 ft. in See also:

ELEVATION

elevation. Wide lands in this district were held in the See also:

time of See also:

EDWARD

Edward the See also:

CONFESSOR

Confessor by Alwin, whose son Thurkill of ,See also:

Warwick, or " of Arden," founded the See also:

FAMILY

family of the Warwickshire Ardens who in See also:

Queen See also:

Elizabeth's time still held several of the manors ascribed to Thurkill in Domesday. See also:

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare, whose See also:

MOTHER

mother See also:

Mary Arden claimed to be of this family, knew the district well, living as he did at See also:

Stratford; and its natural characteristics, then still unchanged, inspired his pictures of forest See also:

LIFE

life in As You Like It. The name of the Forest of Arden, besides remaining a convenient designation of a well-marked See also:

PHYSICAL

physical See also:

AREA

area, is preserved in such See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place-names as See also:

Henley-in-Arden and See also:

Hampton-in-Arden.

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