Perambulation
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Perambulation noun; is the act of walking around, surveying land, or touring. In English law, its historical meaning is to establish the bounds of a municipality by walking around it.
Perambulation may refer to:
- Beating the bounds, annual custom in England and Wales of walking the boundary of one's parish
- Perambulation in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, a similar practice, conducted once every seven years
- The perambulation of the boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont is a meeting between the attorneys general of those two states, held once every seven years at the boundary
- Perambulation of the Town Leat, medieval custom in Tiverton, Devon of following the town's water supply along the leat (watercourse) on foot to its source at Norwood Common
- Bristol perambulation, a civic 'beating the bounds' process around the city of Bristol
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