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''Chase'' is a term used in the United Kingdom to define a type of land reserved for
''Chase'' is a term used in the United Kingdom to define a type of land reserved for hunting
Hunting is the human activity, human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife or feral animals. The most common reasons for humans to hunt are to harvest food (i.e. meat) and useful animal products (fur/hide (skin), hide, ...
use by its owner. Similarly, a ''Royal Chase'' is a type of Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it "the sovereign's public estate", which is neither government property nor part of the monarch's priv ...
by the same description, where the hunting rights are reserved for a member of the British Royal Family.
The term ‘chase’ is also used in Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign
''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the L ...
to describe some national parks. Flinders Chase National Park is on Kangaroo Island in South Australia and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is in New South Wales.
Rights and history
The '' Victoria County History'' describes a chase as:"like a forest, uninclosed, and only defined by metes ouses and farmsteads withinand bounds ills, highways, watercourses etc but it could be held by a subject. Offences committed therein were, as a rule, punishable by theChases are often identified by open clearings, soil type, and retaining additional heath rather than forests for hunting purposes. Chases faced mass enclosure by Private (specifically local) Acts of Parliament. This type of privatization primarily occurred through the heyday between 1600-1850. Enclosure converted many chases from public to private lands to some extent. After these conversions, in many areas the private lands were converted for residential, commercial, industrial or transport infrastructure use. However, the chases listed (see examples) remain largely undiminished by staying a Common, or by a gift to a public body whether to avoidcommon law In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions."The common law is not a brooding omniprese ...and not by forest jurisdiction."
inheritance tax
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or motivated by philanthropy
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.
Examples
Some examples of chases in England include Wyre Forest, which straddles Worcestershire and Shropshire, Malvern Chase in Worcestershire, and Pensnett Chase near Dudley. Cannock Chase inStaffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
had once been previously recognized during the Middle Ages as a Royal Forest; however, it has since been reverted to a chase and merged with Beaudesert, a property originally belonging to the Bishop of Lichfield.
Comparative status
Chases and Royal Chases are beneath the status of forests designations and Royal Forests, respectively. Since the late Medieval Period, the word " forest" has come to mean any large woodland. Virtually all of the National Parks,AONB
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB; , AHNE) is an area of countryside in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value. Areas are designated in recognition of thei ...
forests or significant other forests have officers and laws that apply only to them.
See also
* Ancient woodland *Hunting in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the term hunting with no qualification generally refers to hunting with hounds, e.g. normally fox hunting, stag (deer) hunting, beagling, or minkhunting, whereas shooting is the shooting of game birds. What is called deer ...
* List of forests in the United Kingdom
* Medieval deer park
In medieval and Early Modern England, Wales and Ireland, a deer park () was an enclosed area containing deer. It was bounded by a ditch and bank with a wooden park pale on top of the bank, or by a stone or brick wall. The ditch was on the ins ...
* Surveyor General of Woods, Forests, Parks, and Chases
References
{{reflist Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom