Cors forest was an ancient forest in
Worcestershire
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and
Gloucester
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, to the south of
Malvern Chase
Malvern Chase was a royal chase that occupied the land between the Malvern Hills and the River Severn in Worcestershire and extended to Herefordshire from the River Teme to Cors Forest.
The following parishes and hamlets were within the Chase: ...
. It appears to have included all that part of Gloucestershire lying between the rivers
Severn
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and
Leadon. The chase extended into Worcestershire on the boundary of
Eldersfield
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and Chaceley.
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History
According to Bell,
[
] "the manor and forests of Malvern and Cors, and the castle
Hanley
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, were granted in the reign of
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to
Gilbert de Clare, the red knight, earl of Gloucester, on his marriage with
Joan d'Acres, the king's daughter (in 1290). The forests having become the property of a subject, Malvern was entitled a
chase
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, and Cors a lawn, by which name it now goes."
According to Chambers,
[
] "we find in Dougdale's baronage, that, upon
Gilbert the second's marriage with Maude (in 1308), daughter of John de Burgh, (actually
Richard de Burgh, not his son
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) among other lands, was assigned to her, for her dowry, the chace of Cors, the castle and manor of Hanlegh, and the chace of Malverne; but she having no children by him, his sisters became his heirs; and
Elianore, the eldest, who married
Hugh le Despencer, the younger, brought Malverne, with other large possessions, into that family: and from them, after the third generation, it came, by an heir general, to
Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, in the time of
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."
By the 1490s the chase had come to be called Corse Lawn, suggesting that the glades and clearings that broke the woodland were as extensive at least as the woodland.
Corse Chase, which with
Tewkesbury
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manor was granted by the Crown in 1547 to
Thomas Seymour, Lord Seymour of Sudeley, and was afterwards forfeited, was in 1629 granted by the Crown in trust for
Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex.
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By 1779 all the trees had been cleared, and Corse Lawn was a wide and level open common. At this date, the parishioners pastured sheep upon it, but they were often ruined because in a wet season hardly any sheep survived the rot. The Lawn itself was inclosed, under Acts of Parliament, in 1796 and 1797.][
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See also
*The village of Corse, Gloucestershire
Corse is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, next to the village of Staunton. The parish lies on the tongue of land between the River Severn and the River Leadon. It is 6 miles north of Gloucester and 7 miles south-west of Tewke ...
References
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Forests and woodlands of Worcestershire