Shire Reeve : The Sand & The Clay

"The West part is taken up with the Forrest of Shirewood, which stretcheth out a great way. This part because it is sandy, the inhabitants tearme The Sand; the other, for that it is Claish, they call The Clay; and so have divided their Country into these two parts."

William Camden, Britannia, 1st edition 1586

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