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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. IV. 



challenge our attention. Leland mentions 

 one at — 



' Dartington, half a mile above Totness 

 bridge, on the same ripe of the water 

 that Toteness is; in this park is a great 

 manor-place longing to the Duke of Ex- 

 uster.' ' He also notices a park and house 

 at Bere, on the borders of Cornwall," and 

 tells us ' that the Bishop of Excester hath 

 a manor-place or palace by the church- 

 yard (of Crediton), and to this manor- 

 place there longith a parke." This park, 

 we are told, was conveyed 'with great 

 reluctance ' by the Bishop, to Sir Thomas 

 Dennis, in the reign of Henry VIII.* 



The parks in Saxton's map are not very 

 plainly indicated, but besides those which 

 I have already noticed, others appear to 

 be marked at Wolley and Potberidge, near 

 Torrington, at Atherington in the same 

 neighbourhood, at Holcombe, near Exeter, 

 at Eery-Castle, near Totness, and at Ar- 

 mynton, near Plimpton. 



Existing Devonshire Parks. 



Werrington . Mr. Campbell. 



Castle-Hill . Earl Fortescue. 



Mount Edgecumbe, Earl of Mount 

 Edgecumbe. 



Heanton . . Lord Clinton. 



Ugbrook . . Lord Clifford. 



BiCTON . . . Lady RoUe. 



Stevenstone, near TORRINGTON, 

 Hon. Mark RoUe. 

 8. KiLLERTON . Sir Thomas D. Ac- 

 land, Bart. 



Shute . . . SirW. T. 



POLTIMORE . . Lord Poltimore. 



POWDERHAM . Earl of Devon. 



Hall, near Barnstaple, Mr. R. 

 Chichester. 



Clovelly . . Colonel Fane. 



Little Fulford, orShobrookePark, 

 Mr. Hippesley. 



Newenham . Mr. Strode. 



Whyddon . . Mr. Bayley. 



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 lo. 

 II. 



12. 



13- 



14. 



IS- 

 16. 



, Pole, Bart. 



DORSETSHIRE. 



Blagden, or Blakeden, an ancient royal 

 park, formerly three miles in circuit,* in 

 the precincts of Cranborne Chase, on the 

 confines of Wiltshire, claims precedence 

 in the list of Dorsetshire parks : it is thus 

 noticed by Leland : ' From Craneburn I 

 passed about 2 miles or more al by 



' Itin. vol. iii. p. 49, fol. 27. 



* Itin. vol. vii. p. 122. 



» Itin. vol. iii. p. 68, fol. 38. 



* Lysons, p. 145. 



playne champain Ground, leving Blag- 

 den, the Kinges great park hard on the 

 left Hand." In the reign of Edward I. 

 the Chase of Cranborne belonged to 

 Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester ; but 

 Blagden, as well as the chase itself, was 

 in the possession of the" Crown in the 



° Certificate as to Parks in Dorset, Oct. 28, 

 1583. S. P. O. Domestic. 

 » Itin. vol. iii. p. 87, fol. 56. 



