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GCSE History · key term
An area placed under special laws to protect royal hunting animals and their habitat; it could include open land as well as woodland.
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Paper 2
Land reserved for royal hunting and subject to special laws protecting the king’s animals and their habitat; it was not necessarily woodland.
Revise: Socio-economic Change in Norman EnglandRoyal forests imposed another kind of economic pressure. William greatly extended land reserved for royal hunting. Forest law restricted activities such as hunting and collecting wood, which mattered to people’s food supplies and livelihoods.
Paper 1
A legally designated area in which game animals and their habitat were protected for royal hunting; it did not have to be woodland.
A royal forest was an area subject to special hunting laws, not necessarily woodland or land held personally by the king.
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