Ch. III. 



HERTFORD. 



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and the New Park, in the forty-second 

 year of her reign.' 



Parks, subsequent to the Elizabethan 

 period, were also at the following places, 

 as appears in Chauricey's History of the 

 County : — At Throcking, the seat of Mr. 

 Elwes, and at Widyall Hall, made by 

 Richard Gulston, Esq., who died in 1686; 

 at Moore, or M ore's place, in Hadham- 

 magna, made by Sir Richard Atkins, 

 Bart. ' for his conveniency,' in the time of 

 Charles II.; at New Place, in the parish 

 of Goldeston, where Sir Humphry Gore 

 ' made a pretty park' in Chauncey's time f 

 at Hamills, where Sir John Brograve en- 

 larged his park ; at Offley-place, the seat 

 of the Spencers; and at Stagenhoe, be- 

 longing at the same period to Sir John 



' Chauncey, p. 144. 



" An older one is, however, here marked in 

 Saxton. 



Austin. Before Chauncey's time, Gor- 

 hambury appears to have been enclosed; 

 the park and grounds are said^ to include 

 about 600 acres, well stocked with timber. 

 Ashridge, near Tring and Berkhamsted, 

 is also marked as a park in Moll's map, 

 made in the year 1700, and engraved in 

 Chauncey's History of Hertfordshire ; but 

 the house is in the county of Buckingham. 



Existing Hertfordshire Parks. 



^ Beauties of England and Wales, vol. vii. 

 p. 130- 



