Kirby Muxloe Leicester Senior Premier STEP 7
	In the late 9th or early 10th century the Dane, Caeri, started a settlement called Caeri's by. The settlement was in Hereswood, (the forest of the Danish settlers) and these settlers had access to ample water from the two Kirby brooks which down stream join to form Glenfield brook (medieval name Fulbrook). By the time of the Doomsday book (1086), the settlement was called Carbi and had a working population of 8. The rights and privileges afforded by the forest were both highly valued and jealously guarded. The common folk having only "firebote", rights to collect fuel, the more privileged having "husbate", the use of timber for making dwellings and "heybote", access to material for hedges. Hesewode Forest is catalogued in the Doomsday Book in 1086 as covering 36 square miles, although these old measurements were sometimes only approximate. This forest, later to be called the forest of Leicester and not to be confused with Charnwood Forest, was an important part of the local economy supplying timber, honey for sweetening and preserving, oak bark for tanning, acorns and beech nuts for pig fodder, fresh meat, fuel and grazing for animals.