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| More recently the name has been used by the ''Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme'', who from 2006 to 2011 worked to improve wildlife conservation, access and recreation in an area of 35 square miles.<ref name="FR">{{cite web |title=Project evaluation: Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme |url=https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/project-evaluation-neroche-landscape-partnership-scheme/ |website=Forest Research |access-date=1 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Neroche - liberating the landscape |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410043034/http://www.nerochescheme.org/ourResults.php |access-date=1 January 2025 |date=10 April 2013}}</ref> In 2024 the ''Wild Neroche'' scheme was started by ] to ] 730 hectares.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wild Neroche Rewilding Project |url=https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/rewilding-projects/wild-neroche |website=Rewilding Britain |access-date=1 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> | More recently the name has been used by the ''Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme'', who from 2006 to 2011 worked to improve wildlife conservation, access and recreation in an area of 35 square miles.<ref name="FR">{{cite web |title=Project evaluation: Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme |url=https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/project-evaluation-neroche-landscape-partnership-scheme/ |website=Forest Research |access-date=1 January 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Neroche - liberating the landscape |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130410043034/http://www.nerochescheme.org/ourResults.php |access-date=1 January 2025 |date=10 April 2013}}</ref> In 2024 the ''Wild Neroche'' scheme was started by ] to ] 730 hectares.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wild Neroche Rewilding Project |url=https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/rewilding-projects/wild-neroche |website=Rewilding Britain |access-date=1 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref> | ||
| ==People associated with the forest== | |||
| * ], appointed forester, 1435. | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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Neroche Forest was a Royal Forest in the county of Somerset, England, to the south of Taunton, comprising some 6000-7000 acres.
By the time of Richard II (~1377) the forest had been neglected by the Crown. In 1508 Henry VII leased Exmoor and Neroche Forests to Sir Edmund Carew. In 1627 the forest, along with Selwood Forest, was disafforested by Charles I, with the intention that the land be improved for agriculture. This was done to raise funds to pay for the ill-fated Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré. By the 1650s the agricultural value of the lands had shown much improvement. In 1830 a bill went through parliament for inclosing the Forest of Roach otherwise Roche otherwise Neroach otherwise Neroche. This encompassed land in the Parishes of Broadway, Bickenhall, Beercrocombe, Ilton, Barrington, Ashill, Illminster, Whitelackington, Curland, Donyatt, Isle-Abbotts, Hatchbeauchamp, and the Tithing of Domett in the Parish of Buckland Saint Mary.
The spelling of the name has had many variations of Neroche and Rache, with 37 variants recorded.
More recently the name has been used by the Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme, who from 2006 to 2011 worked to improve wildlife conservation, access and recreation in an area of 35 square miles. In 2024 the Wild Neroche scheme was started by Forestry England to rewild 730 hectares.
People associated with the forest
- William de Botreaux, 3rd Baron Botreaux, appointed forester, 1435.
References
- ^ Thirsk, Joan; Finberg, H. P. R. (1967). The Agrarian History of England and Wales. CUP Archive. pp. 358–359. ISBN 978-0-521-20076-9. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- "Exmoor Royal Forest". The Historic Environment Record for Exmoor National Park. National Parks. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- "CHARLES I AND THE DISAFFORESTATION OF SOMERSET AND WILTSHIRE". www.bonhams.com. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- "House of Commons Journal". www.british-history.ac.uk. 85: 109–118. 1 March 1830. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- Gray, Harold St George (1904). "Excavations at Castle Neroche, Somerset: June-July 1903" (PDF). Somerset Archaeology and Natural History. 49: 23–25. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- "Project evaluation: Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme". Forest Research. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- "Neroche - liberating the landscape". 10 April 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
- "Wild Neroche Rewilding Project". Rewilding Britain. Retrieved 1 January 2025.