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Perambulation
Perambulation meaning
A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around. | An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries. | The district thus inspected.
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The ancient route now involves negotiating walls and private gardens and using many paths that are not public rights of way, some of which must be cleared on each perambulation.
The area once known as the Turbary of Alberysheved between the River Teign and the headwaters of the River Bovey is mentioned in the Perambulation of the Forest of Dartmoor of 1240 (by 1609 the name of the area had changed to Turf Hill).
These labyrinths may have originated as symbolic allusion to the Holy City ; and some modern thinkers have theorized that prayers and devotions may have accompanied the perambulation of their intricate paths.