perambulation

noun3

1. •
   An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

   • Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich. — 1902
2. •
   (rare) a walk that goes through or around an area, especially an official one along the boundaries of a parish or town to mark and record them
3. •
   an area inside the borders that officials walk along and record during a legal ceremony