Public notices also warned against the letting of gardens or turbary to the police. |
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The profit of turbary is the right to cut turf or peat, usually in order to burn it. |
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Many bog owners and people with turbary rights cut turf on an acre plot. |
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Their rights of usufruct, grazing, pannage, estovers, turbary and piscary survived for many centuries before being terminated: first informally, later in wholesale acts of enclosure. |
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The right of the common marl – the digging for clay in the forest – died out in the 19th century, and the right of turbary – to cut turf – is no longer practised. |
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In the Middle Ages the local monasteries began to excavate the peatlands as a turbary business, selling fuel to Norwich and Great Yarmouth. |
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The right of Dartmoor commoners to cut peat for fuel is known as turbary. |
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Apart from the rights of turbary, the Award mapped and numbered a series of small allotments, which were either sold or presented to named individuals. |
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It also stars a golden eagle called Isla who was bred at Glasgow University and now lives at the Turbary House Bird of Prey and Conservation Centre. |
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