A Descriptive List of the Deer-parks and Paddocks of England |
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13 stone 17th century 50 acres 9 stone acres avenue Average weight Bart beautiful beech bracken brick wall brook Castle Charles chiefly oak clumps continuous iron DEER FENCE deer park dressed Duke Earl Edward Enclosed Esquire fallow deer fawns feet high Fence fern Forest girth ground Hall Henry herd heronry Highland cattle hill hilly horns Imparked iron fencing iron railing Japanese deer K.G. Acreage land limes Lodge Lord Marquis miles natural and artificial natural springs Nottingham Notts Number of fallow Number of red oak and elm old oaks Owner park is beautifully parks in England partly iron partly wall pheasants picturesque rabbits red deer river Scotch cattle Scotch fir sheep Spanish chestnuts stone of 14 sunk fence surrounded swans sycamore thorns timber wall and iron Water supply weight of bucks weight of hinds weight of stags wild ducks wire fence wood paling wooden paling
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Page 7 - Brackmore, from Stoke Wake to Melcombe Park and the Grange Wood westward, the number being merely a question of preservation or non-preservation.
Page 177 - And althoughe our county is graced wth so many pleasant prospectes, as scarce any shyre the lyke, in so muche as allmost eavery littell hyll largely affourdethe the same, yet aspyringe Hambury obtaygninge the principality, overlookethe them all. A stately seate meete for a kinges pallace, and had it but the comodity of our Severne myght compare with that of Wyndesore. Neyther wanted theare for recreation of our kynges a fayre parke, wch...
Page 177 - Parke, sortinge in name with the kynges vast forrest reachinge in former ages far and wyde. A large walke for savage beastes, but nowe more comodyously changed to the civil habitations of many gentellmen, the freehouldes of wealthy yeomen, and dwellinges of industryous husbandmen.
Page 8 - Essex, where they were liberated the next day in Epping Forest to re-stock the glades in which their species had formerly roamed, but where they had long been extinct.
Page 157 - Brightling is situated on an elevated portion of the Forest ridge, and is one of the most romantic and picturesque spots in East Sussex. Brightling Down rising to the height of 646 feet above the level of the sea is well known through the effective but highly exaggerated picture of Turner. Rosehill, which has been in the Fuller family since the year 1697, now belongs to 0.
Page 177 - ... vast forrest reachinge in former ages far and wyde. A large walke for savage beastes, but nowe more comodyously changed to the civil habitations of many gentellmen, the freehouldes of wealthy yeomen, and dwellinges of industryous husbandmen. Gratus opus a9ricolis.
Page 177 - ... of the hill, but when I state that from the west door of the church there are one hundred and forty-four stone steps to descend before arriving at the Rectory, it will give the readers of these " sketches " some faint idea of the height of the hill upon which the church is built. Habington says that although "our countie is graced with so many pleasant prospects, as scarce any shyre the lyke, in so much as allmost eavery littell hyll largely affourdethe the same, yet aspyringe Hambury obtayninge...
Page 58 - Fine old oaks (between four and five hundred years old), limes, elms, and beeches. Eighty acres fern ; four acres of ornamental water and a brook intersect the park, forming the boundary between Greenstead and Wyvenhoe parishes. LANGLEYS PARK (JJ Tufnell, Esq.).