Windsor Forest was huge, but it was named for one small settlement at its eastern end. In Old Windsor (the original Windsor before William the Conqueror built his castle down the road) there was once an important Anglo-Saxon palace. It’s all gone now, apart from whatever hides beneath the ground, but it was once important enough for the whole Forest to be named for it.
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