- Look up
perambulation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Perambulation noun; is the act of
walking around,
surveying land, or touring. In
English law...
- The
Bristol perambulation was a
civic ritual,
usually performed annually, in Bristol, England, from the
sixteenth to the
nineteenth centuries. Also called...
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Beating the
bounds or
perambulating the
bounds is an
ancient custom still observed in
parts of England, Wales, and the New
England region of the United...
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wooden carrying case. The
British Workman reported in 1857
about a
perambulating library operating in a
circle of
eight villages, in ****bria. A Victorian...
- The
Perambulation of the Town Leat is a
traditional mediaeval custom, also
known as water-bailing, that
takes place in the town of Tiverton, Devon, England...
- 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...
- king
directed the
Sheriff of
Devon and
twelve knights of the
county to
perambulate the
Forest to
record its
exact bounds. This was
because Richard had been...
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juries in the
forest courts. In 1300 many (if not all)
forests were
perambulated and
reduced greatly in
their extent, in
theory to
their extent in the...
- The
Warrington Perambulating Library has been
described by
historian Ian
Orton as "one of the most
revolutionary library advances of the
nineteenth century"...
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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...
