Having recently replaced my faulty old laptop with another, less faulty laptop, I was going through the data I've accumulated since 1997 in the hope of being able to somewhat reduce the 92.2Gb storage.
I alighted on a PDF file containing the history of the local area and saw the word 'assarting'. Not having a clue what this word means, other than vast tracts of land hereabouts were subjected to it in medieval times, I looked it up.
It's the felling of forest to create arable land. This whole area, like much of Britain, was covered in forest in Saxon times.
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