Purlieu is a term used of the outlying parts of a place or district. It was a term of the old Forest law, and meant, as defined by John Manwood, Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest (1598, 4th ed. 1717), "a certain territory of ground adjoining unto the forest [which which] was once forest-land and afterwards disafforested by the perambulations made for the severing of the new forests from the old.
