Scheduled Monument - The medieval bishop's palace and deer park…
WEBThe medieval deer park associated with the palace formerly occupied an area of about 275ha extending southwards from the moated site. The surviving remains of the park pale are protected in two areas, 1.5km and 1km to the south west and south east of the moated site respectively. The south western part of the park pale survives as a linear bank ...
Greatworth | British History Online
WEB4 days ago · Fig. 61 Greatworth Medieval settlements and estates, (12) Deer park. Prehistoric and Roman. A fragment of a perforated disc of silty mudstone has been found in the parish (at SP 549419; NM Records) …
Farnham Park - Wikipedia
WEBFarnham Park is a 131-hectare (320-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Farnham in Surrey.It is owned and managed by Waverley Borough Council.. This medieval deer park has an avenue of trees which is over a kilometer long. Originally the trees were mature elms, but these succumbed to the Dutch elm disease in the early 1970s and were replaced with …
Park - Wikipedia
WEBDepiction of a medieval hunting park from a 15th-century manuscript. English deer parks were used by the aristocracy in medieval times for game hunting. They had walls or thick hedges around them to keep game animals (e.g., stags) in and people out. It was strictly forbidden for commoners to hunt animals in these deer parks.
Category:Deer parks - Wikimedia Commons
WEBenclosed area containing deer in medieval and Early Modern England. Upload media Wikipedia. Subclass of: green space; pasture; park; Authority file ... Deer Park Lake Fountain.jpg 3,771 × 2,514; 10.97 MB. Deer Park Lamp Post.jpg ...
Longnor, Shropshire - Wikipedia
WEBLongnor is a village and civil parish off the A49 road, south of Dorrington and north of Leebotwood in Shropshire, England, with a population of 289. The nearest railway station is Church Stretton, 4.7 miles (7.6 km) away.The Cound Brook flows just west of the village and its medieval deer park.The village contains Longnor Hall and the Grade I listed …
Beckley Park - Wikipedia
WEBBeckley Park, known as Lower Park Farm in the C19 and early C20, is first recorded in 1175-6, having been for some time part of the capital seat of the Honour of St Valery, that is, the main property of the St Valery family. In the 1190s the park was refurbished and enclosed by a stone wall. In 1227, the park having come into the hands of the ...
Knole - Visit Kent
WEBKnole is one of England’s most important, complete, yet fragile historic houses, set at the heart of Kent’s last remaining medieval deer park. One-time palace to archbishops and former royal property of the Tudor dynasty, Knole, in Sevenoaks, was a place of extraordinary wealth and grandeur. Now over 500 years old, this National Trust house ...
Raby Castle - Wikipedia
WEBRaby Castle. Raby Castle ( grid reference NZ12912177) is a medieval castle located near Staindrop in County Durham, England, among 200 acres (810,000 m 2) of deer park. [1] It was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390. Cecily Neville, the mother of the Kings Edward IV and Richard III, was born here.
Explore Chirk Castle's estate | Wales | National Trust
WEBThere’s been a hunting forest here as long as there’s been a castle, including a vast medieval deer park. At its height in the 17th century, the estate was a sprawling 10,000 acres, which was gradually landscaped by successive members of the Myddelton family, culminating with William Emes grand scheme in 1764. Protecting the formal gardens