Old Forest
John Garth writes that the name "Old Forest" seems plain, but is "pregnant" with meaning: "Forest" derives from medieval Latin "forestem silvam", "the outside wood", in turn from Latin "foris", "out of doors". He glosses this as meaning unfenced woodland, noting that the Old Forest is "very emphatically fenced "out" by a strip of scorched earth and a high hedge, to deter the seemingly mobile trees from invading Buckland".