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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… front of the house is a long avenue of fine limes, and a deer-park closely adjoining the Hall contains judiciously … The grounds are very extensive, and partly appropriated to deer. At the southern extremity is a Doric column, commenced …
A History of the County of Sussex
… remarked on. 21 There had been a keeper in the 1550s. 22 Deer were regularly mentioned in the 18th and 19th centuries, … kept until c. 1930. 24 In 1892 there were c. 300 fallow deer. 25 Cattle too grazed the park in the later 18th … (1791), 143. Elwes & Robinson, W. Suss. 108; J. Whitaker, Deer Parks and Paddocks of Eng. (1892), 154. S.R.S. xvi. …
A History of the County of Essex
… 61 and in 1489 it was stated that he was entitled to fee deer. 62 In the 16th and 17th centuries there were occasional …
Old and New London
… his SpanielsWilliam III.'s Summer-houseSt. James's as a Deer-parkLe Serre's Description of the ParkPepys' Account of … was drained and enclosed, formed into a "nurscry for deer," and made also "an appendage to the Tilt-yard at … centre portion, which he surrounded with a ring fence for deer. "This day," writes Samuel Pepys, in his "Diary," under …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Bagpath and Boxwell with Leighterton, was created for deer and coneys by Sir Thomas Estcourt before 1612. 18 In the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… S. of the village, within the formerly wooded area of the deer park, on Boulder Clay at about 150 m. above OD. Air …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… air photographs in NMR) Fig. 126 Wicken (5) Moat b(6) Deer Park (centred SP 738385; Fig. 125), lay in the W. of the … and woodland, part of which may have been the medieval deer park (6). To the S. of the common fields was a smaller …
A History of the County of Northampton
… of the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, purchased the deer for his new park a few miles away at Stowe (Bucks.). 19 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… the park's profitability, noted in 1619 that stocks of deer, swans, fish, and bees might be obtained and horses bred … dues were commuted to 252 10 s.; 60 a. in Willey old deer park, said to be the land bought from Wenlock priory by …