A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



profit, although at the same time they have been put in position to help the game and to serve as 

 shelter for the adjacent land. In short on this estate arboriculture is the main object. Trees have 

 also been planted in the park and along the roadside to improve the landscape. 



Sotterley Park (Captain Miles Barne), in the north-east of the county, a little south of Beccles, 

 consists of 458 acres, of which 180 are woods, the remainder being pasture. It contains some very 

 fine old oaks. Sotterley oak had at one time a considerable reputation in ship-building yards. A 

 large ' fell,' about the year 1794, was secured by the royal navy, and was used in ships that fought at 

 Trafalgar. Oaks grow here almost to perfection. A specimen that was lately felled contained 

 300 cubic feet in the bole. Care has long been taken to replant where any felling has been done. 

 Forty or fifty acres have been newly planted, principally with larch and pines, in the last few years 

 on Captain Barne's Sotterley and Dunwich estates. 



Hengrave Park (Mr. John Wood) four miles north-west of Bury St. Edmunds, has a total area 

 of 300 acres, including belts and plantations, which occupy about 50 acres. There has been little or 

 no planting on the estate of late years. In 1894 about 35 acres were planted in the adjoining 

 parish of Risby. Sir Thomas Kitson erected a noble mansion here in 1525-38. Queen Elizabeth, 

 in 1587, licensed Sir Thomas Kitson the younger to impark 300 acres in Hengrave, Fornham All 

 Saints, Risby, Flempton and Lackford, granting him all the privileges of free warren and other 

 rights pertaining to a park. There had previously been a small enclosure round the manor-house 

 called the Little Park, and the new enclosure was termed the Great Park. The extent of the two 

 parks, in 1715, was 500 acres. 



A contemporary book of accounts give the following interesting particulars of the deer placed in 

 the Great Park when finished at Michaelmas 1587 : 



Deare of all kinds taken owte of Chevington Parke in the 

 beginning of the last year, ix"xiij .... 



Reed and also put into Hengrave Park out of Lopham 

 Park, xiiij ........ 



Out of Westrop Park, xxvj ...... 



Out of Wethenden Park, iij . . . . . . > cccxvj 



Reed as given by Mr. Clement Higham, being tame and 



whight, j . 



Reed out of Mr. Jernegan his Parke, one whight doe, j 

 Reed out of Mr. Crane his Parke, viij .... 



Remained as in the year ended as before, Ixx 

 Whereof 



Killed and spent in the house in Chrysmas, ij 

 Given unto Mr. Clement Higham, ii . 

 Morts, with one lost, xj . . . 



Killed and sent unto London of bucks, ij 

 Given unto Mr. Seckford, j 

 Stolen, j . . . . . . 



And is 



Remaynes of bucks xviij 

 sores xx 

 sorrels xlviij 

 pricketts xxv 

 does and fawns ix"vj cciiij"xvij* 



Sudbourne Park (Mr. Kenneth M. Clark) to the north of Orford, has an area of about 300 acres 

 and is well wooded. Very little planting has been done of recent years except in the way of 

 improving existing covers for game. 



Rendlesham Park (Lord Rendlesham), to the south-east of Wickham Market, extends over 

 400 acres, about 180 acres of which are woods or plantations. No planting has taken place here of 

 late years, beyond filling up the woods with cover for game. For this purpose about 25,000 plants, 

 consisting of laurels, rhododendrons, spruce, American dogwood, mahonia and snowberry were 

 planted. 



Glenham Park (earl of Guilford), between Framlingham and Saxmundham, has a well-wooded 

 area of about 350 acres. This park, until about the middle of last century, used to be noted for a 

 herd of dark fallow deer. 



Glevering Park (Mr. Arthur Heywood) near Framlingham, has an area of about 300 acres. 

 Since purchasing the estate in 1898, Mr. Heywood has planted about 25 acres. 



Other wooded parks, mostly of much less extent and chiefly of modern origin, are those of 

 Assington, Benacre, Boxted, Branches, Brettenham, Chadacre, Dalham, Denston, Easton, Elvedon, 



1 Gage, Hist, of H engrave (1822), 4-5. 

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