Ch. VI. 



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Notices of two parks in this county 

 occur in the Domesday Survey. The one, 

 at Oakley, the Saxon Acleia or Acklai, sig- 

 nifying oak trees and a plain, and exactly 

 descriptive of its situation in the ancient 

 Bernwode Forest, in Tickesell Hundred 

 (now part of Ashendon Hundred) about 

 six miles WNW. of the River Thames ; 

 the other at Crendon, the Oredendone of 

 the Survey, in the same hundred, and 

 south-eastern verge of the same forest.'' 



The park at Oakley belonged to the 

 king, but no further notice of it occurs. 



Crendon was granted to Walter Giffard, 

 and here a park for beasts of the chase, 

 ' parcus bestiarum silvaticarum,' is ex- 

 pressly mentioned, but, like Oakley, no 

 further mention of it is recorded. 



Saxton's Survey of this county, which 

 was made in 1574, marks a park near 

 Chilton, at a spot still called Chilton 

 Park, midway between these ancient 

 parks. 



At Dodderskall, in the parish of Quain- 

 ton, in the same hundred of Ashendon, 

 the seat of the ancient family of Pigot, 

 was a park existing in the seventeenth 

 century, as appears by a plan of that date 

 engraved in Lipscomb's Buckingham- 

 shire (p. 51.) This park was converted 

 into arable and meadow, and the keeper's 

 lodge demolished about the year 1789.' 



A park also appears to have existed at 



' Lipscomb's History of the County of 

 •Buckingham, vol. i. pp. 198, 350. 



* lb. vol. i. p. 411. 



' Willis's Hundred of Buckingham, p. 333, 

 A.D. 1755. 



Over-Winchendon, the seat of Philip 

 Lord Wharton, in the reign of Charles II. 

 In the hundred of Buckingham, to the 

 north-west of that of Ashendon, and in 

 the north-western angle of the county, 

 Saxton gives two parks; the one near 

 Edgcott and in the parish of Twyford, 

 which appears to have been a park of the 

 Wenman family,' and of which I find no 

 further account, and the other at Thorn- 

 ton, on the borders of the county of 

 Northampton. Here was the seat of the 

 Tyrrells, and here Queen Elizabeth, in 

 the first year of her reign, licensed George 

 Tyrrell, Esq., to impark 500 acres of 

 meadow and wood, and enclose the same 

 with pales or fence, at his discretion, and 

 make a park there, &c.^ Thornton has 

 been long disparked. At Stockholt, in this 

 neighbourhood, Thomas Linford, Esq, 

 had license to enclose 'quendam jamp- 

 num,' certain furze-land, and a certain 

 wood adjacent to his park, in the thir- 

 teenth of Henry IV.^ The beginning of 

 the great park at Stowe must be ascribed 

 to Sir Peter Temple, who, about the year 

 1 65 1, enclosed a park here on the dis- 

 parking of Wicken Park, in the county of 

 Northampton, by the Lord Spencer, the 

 deer of which he bought.* There appear, 

 however, to have been ancient parks in 

 this parish and in Westbury adjoining at 

 a very early date, as we find from the 



■* From a translation of the G^ixA penes the 

 Hon. Richard Cavendish, the present pro- 

 prietor. 



» Gal. Pat. Rolls, p. 359. 



« Willis, p. 276,. 



