(law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
The district thus inspected.
Quotations
1902: Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian SocietyAnother forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.
1929: Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological SocietyThe earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of Puddletown recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory.