PERAMBULATION
amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation
(noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
perambulation
(noun) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
perambulation (countable and uncountable, plural perambulations)
(rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
(legal) 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.
Synonyms
• (English legal ceremony) bannering
Anagrams
• preambulation
Source: Wiktionary
Per*am`bu*la"tion, n.
1. The act of perambulating; traversing. Bacon.
2. An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest,
etc.
3. A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of
inspection. "The . . . bounds of his own perambulation." [Obs.]
Holyday.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition