Ch. V. 



NORFOLK. 



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longed to Roger Windham, Esq., and was 

 one mile in circuit ; near this is the modern 

 park of Gunton, enclosed in 1825 : it is a 

 park of 600 acres, with a herd of 150 fal- 

 low-deer. 



In South Erpingham, there was a park 

 at Baconsthorpe in 158 1, belonging to 

 William Haydon, Esq., two miles in cir- 

 cumference; and there had been one at 

 Blickling, near Aylsham, which once be- 

 longed to the Bishops of Norwich (but was 

 disparked before 1581); it afterwards be- 

 longed to the Hobert family. The park 

 at Blickling is at present one of the largest 

 in this county, containing about 620 acres, 

 of which 145 are wood, and 26 water; 

 there is a herd of 270 fallow-deer. There 

 appear also to have been once deer parks 

 at Buxton and Oxnead, ancient seats of 

 the Pastons, Earls of Yarmouth. 



To the south of Norwich are the hun- 

 dreds of Humliarde, Hensed, Depward, 

 JBrisham, and Diss. In that of Humliarde 

 was Brakonask or Brakenash Park, be- 

 longing in 1581 to Thomas Townshend, 

 Esq., one mile in circuit; it has been long 

 disparked. In Depward Hundred is Shel- 

 ton, once the seat and park of an ancient 

 family of that name : it is noticed among 

 the Norfolk parks in 1581, when it be- 

 longed to Thomas Shelton, Esq., and was 

 one mile in circuit. It was sold by the 

 Shelton family and disparked early in the 

 seventeenth century.' There was a park 

 at Erisham. or Earsham, in the hundred 

 of the same name, attached to the castle 

 of Bungay in Suffolk, which in 1307 is 

 returned as well stocked,'' and which in 

 158 1 belonged to the Earl of Arundel, 'one 

 mile and a half in compass ;' and another 



' History, &c. of Norfolk, vol; ii. p. 136. 



'^ Suckling's Suffolk, vol. i. p. 136, 



' History and Antiquities of Norfolk, 1781, 



at Hanworth., in the same hundred, be- 

 longing to the same nobleman, which, 

 however, it is stated in the list already 

 referred to, was without deer in 1581. 

 The Earl of Arundel possessed also in 

 1581 another park in the hundred of Diss, 

 at Winfarthing, estimated at one mile in 

 circumference. Winfarthing was a very 

 ancient park; in 1259 it belonged to Sir 

 William Munchensy, and was then well 

 stocked with deer; it afterwards was the 

 property of the Lords Grey of Ruthyn, 

 when it is also stated to have been well 

 stocked with deer : ' all which (parks) were 

 nothing worth above their outgoings and 

 repairs.' Two parks are mentioned here 

 in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In 1604 

 this park was full of deer, and Sir Bas- 

 singbourne Gawdy, of West Horling, 

 Knight, had every year a fee doe and 

 buck, and liberty of hunting them in the 

 park, which was then Lord Arundel's.' 



In the south-western parts of Norfolk 

 lie the hundreds of Guiltoross, Shropham, 

 Wayland, Grimshoe, South Greenhoe, and 

 Clackhouse. In the first-jiamed of these, 

 at Kenninghall, the Earls of Arundel, 

 and afterwards the Howards Dukes of 

 Norfolk, had an ancient seat, situated in the 

 midst of a large park, which contained 700 

 acres', well stocked with deer ; the house 

 was pulled down about 1650.^ In 158J 

 this park is said to have been two miles 

 and a half in circuit. There was also a 

 park in the adjoining manor of Lopham, 

 belonging to Richard BigQt, in 1301. 

 This also was the property of the Earl of 

 Arundel, in 15-81 ; it was then said to be 

 three miles and a half in circuit. At Old 

 Buckenham (in the hundred of Shro- 



vol, ii. pp. 187, 194. 



■" History of Norfolk, vol. vi. p. 90. 



