turbary

Turbary: the right to cut turf or peat for fuel.

The bogs are threatened by grazing, turbary, burning and afforestation.

Interest quickens after a mile when Turbary Pot appears by the side of the track.

Turf could be cut for fuel for fires and was free to all local inhabitants under the custom known as Turbary.

The word may also be used to describe the associated piece of bog or peatland and, by extension, the material extracted from the turbary.

It is the site of the Turbary Woods Owl and Bird Sanctuary.

These native fenmen had rights of commonage, fishing and fowling; also the privilege of turbary - otherwise turf-cutting."

The Turbary Road continues the fell road as a cart track free of constricting walls and maintaining a level contour with an uninterrupted view ahead.

The fuel used consisted of wood and charcoal, and turf from marshes over which the priory had rights of turbary (to cut turf).

Turbary rights, which are more fully expressed legally as common of turbary, are often associated with commonage, or, in some cases, rights over another person's land.

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Common of Turbary - the right to cut turf for fuel - and Common of Marl - to dig marl for fertilizer - are now virtually obsolete.

Patches of the original heath still remain, notably Turbary Common, a 36 Hectare site most of which is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

While turbary (turf cutting)was still practised on a small scale at the beginning of the twentieth century it had ceased to be an important factor in the management of the Common by that time.

In the New Forest of southern England, a particular right of turbary belongs not to an individual person, dwelling or plot of land, but to a particular hearth and chimney.

Also we have granted to the same men one customary acre in length and breadth for digging turfs where they suitably wish to choose in the Turbary near Passenant's Lake.

Visitors to Yordas Cave who have left their cars parked at or near Masongill must retrace their steps along the Turbary Road, a walk equally enjoyable when done in reverse.

Sharpham Moor Plot is an area, predominately of secondary woodland, on Turbary Moor Series Peat within the Somerset Moors managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust.

Would you give me the red cow you have and the mountainy ram, and the right of way across your rye path, and a load of dung at Michaelmas, and turbary upon the western hill?

Keld Head is a large, dark, deep and motionless pool of evil appearance: it is the uprising of all the streams falling into the Turbary Road pots which, after travelling underground, here return to daylight.

Commons rights are attached to particular plots of land (or in the case of turbary, to particular hearths), and different land has different rights - and some of this land is some distance from the Forest itself.

The area once known as the Turbary of Alberysheved between the River Teign and the headwaters of the River Bovey is mentioned in the Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor of 1240 (by 1609 the name of the area had changed to Turf Hill).

The vast quantity of this unworked fuel would be sufficient to warm the whole population of Iceland for a century; this vast turbary measured in certain ravines had in many places a depth of seventy feet, and presented layers of carbonized remains of vegetation alternating with thinner layers of tufaceous pumice.

The common inhabitants of the forest might, depending on their location, possess a variety of rights: estover, the right of taking firewood, pannage, the right to pasture swine in the forest, turbary, the right to cut turf (as fuel), and various other rights of pasturage (agistment) and harvesting the products of the forest.