An area roughly equivalent to modern-day Hyde Park. It was owned by Westminster Abbey, and its woods afforded both fire-wood and shelter for the monks and for their game and water-fowl.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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