Note 202 — APPENDIX. (continued 2)

This tract of forest probably was very extensive. We know that in the north-west of the county, and extending to near Doncaster, there was the forest of Celidon; south of that was Sherwood forest. In Holland there was the forest of “Haut Huntre” (its Norman name); and there is a tradition, in our neighbourhood, of a church, not far from Old Bolingbroke, being called “St. Luke’s in the Forest,” now known as Stickney; this name itself probably meaning a “sticken,” or staked, island; a kind of preserved oasis, or clearing, in a wilderness of wood and morass. Architectural Society’s Journal, 1858, p. 231.