The Picts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Britons, and Scots, successive possessors of this region, consumed the greater part of these woods through the ravages of war, in opening passages through the country, for domestic uses, and in clearing the ground for cultivation.

[8] After the widespread destruction of the native woods, the higher, hilly sections were overtaken by heath, and the lower and flat tracts became water-filled bogs and marshes.

[9] The farm passed through unknown hands until 1872, where Dr. Robert Shirra Gibb took over the lease and worked the lands for 50 years, until retiring in 1922.

During the reign of Queen Anne, there was a small fort on top of the hill which housed a Sergeant and two soldiers, stationed there to man the beacon hut.

[4] Located near the base of Boon Hill, Dod's Corse Stone is an ancient shaft of sandstone sticking out of a block of the same material, inscribed with a cross on opposite sides.