A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



At Enfield, opposite the parish church, are the remains of old 

 Enfield House. In the grounds the fine historic cedar tree, one of the 

 first planted in England, is still standing. It was planted by Dr. Robert 

 Uvedale, a celebrated botanist, who was master of the Enfield Grammar 

 School in the time of Charles II. 



White Webbs Park, of about three hundred acres, on the borders 

 of Hertfordshire, is beautiful and well-wooded, and retains traces of the 

 ancient chase. Forty Hall has another park of about the like area, which 

 contains many old forest trees, and is also part of the former extensive 

 chase. Trent Park, on the western border of Enfield parish, is a third 

 great tract of the ancient chase, preserved by being inclosed. It was 

 given by George III to his favourite physician, Sir Richard Jebb. The 

 park, which is undulating and well-wooded in parts, covers an area of 

 about one thousand acres. 



In the south-west of the county, near to Hampton, were the two 

 adjacent hunting-parks of Hanworth and Kempton. The manor and park 

 of the former were purchased by Henry VIII. Camden calls Hanworth 

 a small royal seat ; Henry made it the scene of many of his sporting 

 pleasures. 121 Towards the end of his reign Hanworth Park was settled in 

 dower on Queen Katherine Parr, who frequently resided there after the 

 king's death, with her second husband, Sir Thomas Seymour, and the 

 young Princess Elizabeth. 123 Elizabeth, as queen, visited Hanworth in 

 i 578, and again in September, 1600, when she hunted in the park. 128 

 Hanworth Park at the present day consists of 207 acres, and is exten- 

 sively wooded. 



Kempton Park, in Sunbury parish, on the Thames, was granted by 

 Charles I in 1631 to Sir Robert Killigrew, vice-chamberlain to the 

 queen. The manor and park of Kempton, as well as the manor and park 

 of Hanworth, had been granted for eighty years without rent to Sir 

 Robert's father by Queen Elizabeth. In consideration of the expense 

 which the petitioner had bestowed in maintaining the game in Kempton 

 Park, he prayed for a grant in fee of the said manor and park at a 

 rent of 18 is. old. The prayer was granted, on the expiration of 

 Queen Elizabeth's lease, at the rental named, provided that he maintained 

 ' the park stocked with 300 deer for his Majesty's disport.' 12 * There 

 were deer in Kempton Park up to about i835. 128 The park comprises 

 about 500 acres, 300 of which are now leased to the Kempton Park 

 Race-Course Company. 



Other private parks of Middlesex which are noteworthy and more 

 or less well-timbered, are Osterley park, 500 acres ; Bentley Priory, 

 250 acres ; Wrotham Park, 286 acres ; Gunnersbury Park, 100 acres ; 

 Harefield Place, 60 acres ; and Ruislip Park, 40 acres. Twickenham 

 Park was sold in lots in i8o5. 1!S 



111 Camden, Britannia (ed. Gough), ii, 2. lfl Lysons, Midd. Parishes, 94. 



m Nichols, Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, iii, 513-14. 

 '" S.P. Dom. Chas. I, cc, 30 ; ccii, 29. 

 15 Shirley, Deer Parks, 56. 

 "* Lysons, Environs of Lend, ii, 775. 



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