Image ID: 22372

The Forest Stone, Lyndhurst

Between Old Newark Road and Portland College
Mansfield
England

The plaque reads; 'This stone from the ancient Market House of Mansfield was placed here A.D. 1752 by Henrietta Cavendish Holles Harley Countess of Oxford & Lady of the Manor to mark the site of the Great Forest Court and Swainmote. On this place the justices in Eyre met the great officers of the Forest every seven years for the administration of it's affairs, & here also the verderers met the swains or freeholders in a moot three times a year for the purpose of renting the pasturage.' The Moot or Meet was followed by a meal of venison.

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