Ch. III. 



SURREY. 



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Ryegate. — Here was a park in the 

 keeping of the Lady Howard in the 

 Elizabethan period;^ in Evelyn's time it 

 belonged to Lady Peterborough ; he ob- 

 serves that the park was then much de- 

 faced.^ By a survey taken in 1622, it is 

 said to have contained 150 acres, and then 

 was well stocked with timber trees and re- 

 plenished with deer.' 



BetchworthCastle. — Sir Thomas Browne 

 was owner of the park here in the reign 

 of Queen Elizabeth.' 



Stoke d'Abernon, ' M' Liefields Park, 

 to be enquired whether it be of the com- 

 pass of a mile.' ( This was with reference 

 to the Act of the 27th of Henry VOL for 

 the encouragement of the breed of horses.) 



Albury Park is not marked in the 

 ancient maps ; in Evelyn's time it was the 

 seat of Mr. Henry Howard, and was often 

 visited by that distinguished scholar, who 

 in his Journal, July 2, 1662, remarks, ' we 

 hunted and killed a buck in the park, Mr. 

 Howard inviting most of the gentlemen of 

 the country neare him.' * 



Starburrow, on the borders of Kent 

 and Sussex, called also Prinkham, it is in 

 the parish of Lingfield ; here was a park 

 in the 47th of Edward IIL, held by the 

 Berkeley family.* The Lord Burrowes 

 was the owner in the reign of Elizabeth. 



Blechingley, not far from Ryegate, here 

 was a park belonging to the Lord Howard 

 at the same period. ' Park silver' \% men- 

 tioned in the accounts here in 24tb of 

 Edward L° 



Ashsiead Park. — Evelyn mentions in 



' Brayley's Surrey, vol. i. p. 52. 



' Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 286. 



' Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. i. p. 287. 



' Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 336. 



' Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. ii. p. 340. 



1684 ' S"' Robert Howard's new built house, 

 which stands in a park in the downe.'' 

 This is one of the very few parks still ex- 

 isting in Surrey; the area is 136 acres. 

 In r864 there was here a herd of 300 

 deer; it is now the property of the Ho- 

 nourable Mrs. Howard. 



South Lambeth. — There was a park here 

 in the reign of James L, made by Sir Noel 

 Caron, ambassador from the States of 

 Holland, which is said to have extended 

 to Vauxhall and Kennington Lane.^ I do 

 not find it marked in Speed's map. 



Wonersh Park. — Formed by the first 

 Lord Grantley, who died in 17S9, not of 

 great extent, but luxuriantly wooded; there 

 was here a herd of about 80 head of deer.' 



Peper-Harow Park, about 285 acres; 

 until lately well-stocked with deer, it was 

 disparked in 185 1-2, but is now (1866) 

 being restored ; it is the seat of Viscount 

 Midleton. 



Ottershaiv Park, described in 1819 as 

 comprising 430 acres, stocked with deer. 



Morden Park, Sir William Clayton's 

 park, now disparked. 



List of existing Deer Parks in the County 

 of Surrey. 



1. Richmond . The Queen. 



2. Farnham . . The Bishop of Win- 



chester. 



3. ASHTEAD . . The Hon. Mrs. 



Howard. 



4. Carshalton . Mr. Taylor. 



5. Wonersh . . Lord Grantley. 



6. Peper-Harow . Viscount Midleton. 



* Manning and Bray, vol. ii. p. 290. 

 ' Evelyn's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 536. 

 " Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. iii. 

 p. 440, note. 

 ° iSray ley's Surrey, vol. v. p. 151. 



