[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Pudwoppa

^^ Thanks Retlaw - an interesting and much appreciated read.

^ You're welcome Bob.

From what I've read so far, the individual entries all use place names and loose geographical features to designate the lands changing hands - seems quite an arbitrary method and very open to disputes.

Not in those days. No streets, No houses, No Electric Pylons, No Lodges, Ponds, Culverts, Rights of Way, or any of the present day emcumbrances. Just well known land marks as fixed reference points, and the fear of the wrath of God, if you argued with the thieving monks.
Can you wonder at the King disolving the Monastaries. they were becoming to rich & powerfull for their own good, as well as their suppression of the masses, with their tithes and tolls, leaving nowt for King to tax..
Retlaw.