Inglewood Forest

Inglewood Forest is a large tract of mainly arable and dairy farm land with a few small woodland areas between Carlisle and Penrith in the English non-metropolitan county of Cumbria or ancient county of Cumberland.

Soon after the Norman conquest of England this area became a Royal Forest. The word forest in this sense did not necessarily mean a wooded area but one that was set aside for hunting though several areas of Inglewood were heavily wooded. The animals that were hunted in this area were mainly deer and wild boars.

Inglewood means the "Wood of the English or Angles": although Cumbria is usually thought of as a Celtic region, Angles did migrate here before the Viking Invasions and the rule of the area by the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde, and the name suggests significant numbers had settled here.

The forest boundaries changed many times and included at one time most of the Cumberland wards of Leath and Cumberland but the core or heart of the forest was the parishes of Hesket-in-the-Forest, Skelton and Hutton-in-the-Forest.

Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Chronicle (written c.1420) places the forest as the original setting of the Robin Hood legend, the following is taken from the chronicle:

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