Fucking Grove, Bristol
Fucking Grove (alias Fockynggroue, Fockyngrove, Fokeing Grove, Foking Grove, Fukkyngroue) is the name of a medieval field in Bristol. The name continued to be used up to the early twentieth century, albeit from the seventeenth century it was euphemised to Pucking Grove. The field name is first recorded in 1373 when Bristol received a royal charter that turned Bristol into an independent county. The charter included a formal survey of the county boundary, which corresponded to the existing town lands. This survey was recorded as an appendix to the charter, under the Great Seal of England. It took the form of a Bristol_perambulation, perambulation of the seven-mile land boundary, describing the features that marked the way, such as ditches and stone boundary markers. This was necessary to define the limits of the new county and thus, for example, the jurisdiction of the sheriff, sheriffs of Bristol. One of pre-existing boundary stones was described in the perambulation survey as 'a ...
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