history the pensnett area
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The present Pensnett covers a small portion of what was a large common called Pensnett Chase in Kingswinford parish, but contiguous with Dudley Wood in Dudley. As such, it belonged to the lords of the manor, descending as part of the Dudley estate from medieval times. With Dudley Wood, it is probably the woodland mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to those manors.[2] There is a rifle range on the chase at barrow bank which was being used for practice firing by volunteer regiments from at least 1860 through till 1920 with many Martini–Henry bullets being found by local metal detectorists.
The name Pensnett is from the Celtic 'pen', for hill and the Anglo-Saxon snaed for 'a piece of woodland'.[3] For many years, it was used as commonland, for animal grazing and a hunting reserve of the lords of Dudley.[4] Pensnett Chase was inclosed under the Pensnett Chase Inclosure Act of 1784. This reserved mining rights to the lord of the manor, but included a clause to compensate people for mining subsidence.[5] The mining of coal and ironstone was long established, and probably goes back to medieval times.
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