"perambulation" meaning in English

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          "text": "1902, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society\nAnother forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich."
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        "(law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries."
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