Ch. VII. 



WARWICKSHIRE. 



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day,' writes Dugdale, ' bears the name of 

 Arley Laund.' These parks are marked 

 in the surveys of Saxton and Speed, but 

 have been long disparked. 



At Flechamsted, near Coventry, a park 

 is also marked in Dugdale's map, but not 

 in the more ancient surveys, although a 

 park was enclosed in Nether Flechamsted, 

 by Henry Smith, Esq., in the twelfth of 

 Henry VII., and by Sir Thomas Leigh, 

 at Over Flechamsted, now long disparked, 

 in the reign of James I. 



The same Sir Thomas Leigh is believed 

 to have made the park at Stoneley, now 

 called Stoneley Old Park, which contains 

 at present 574 acres, with a herd of 450 

 fallow-deer. It is the property of Lord 

 Leigh, and is remarkable for its rural 

 beauty and the picturesque oak trees which 

 are to be seen here. 



Combe Abbey. — There were deer here in 

 1 7 14, as appears from Kip's view of this 

 place at that time : they have been of late 

 years removed to Lord Craven's other 

 seat at Hamstead- Marshall in Berk- 

 shire. 



Newbold Revell. — Here was a park en- 

 closed by Sir Fulwer Skipwith, Bart., 

 early in the eighteenth century, which was 

 disparked after the decease of Selina, 

 Dowager Lady Skipwith, in 1832. 



Newland, near Coventry Here the 



Prior of Coventry had license to impark 

 246 acres of waste and wood, in the sixth 

 of Edward III. 



Shuckburgh.—'Htre was a park in the 

 year 1600, which is not noticed, however, 

 in the ancient published maps of the 

 county. It contains about 120 acres of a 

 deep rich loam, in which elms and oaks 



' Information of Sir Francis Shuckturgh, 

 Bart. 



grow to a large size. There is a herd of 

 200 spotted fallow-deer.' 



In Kineton Hundred there are, or were, 

 the following parks -.—Charlecote, Comp- 

 ton Wyniate, Weston, Eatington, Comp- 

 ton Verney, and Honington. 



Charlecote. — Deer are represented in 

 ' The prospect of Charlecote in Warwick- 

 shire, the seat of the Rev. William Lucy, 

 Esq.,' in 1722. It is at present a park of 

 210 acres, with a herd of 400 fallow and 

 red-deer. 



Compton Wyniate.—' The parke,' says 

 Dugdale, 'is very large, begun by Sir 

 William Compton about the xi year of 

 Henry VIII., for then he had license not 

 only to impark certain grounds there 

 enclosed at that time, but to include and 

 lay to the same 2,000 acres more of land 

 and wood, lying in Compton superior, 

 and Compton inferior, for the use of him- 

 self and his heirs for ever.' * This park 

 was probably disparked when Compton 

 ceased to be the residence of the Earls of 

 Northampton, about the year 1760. 



Weston, the ancient seat of the Shel- 

 dons, ' imparked by William Sheldon, of 

 Beoly in Worcestershire, Esq., their prin- 

 cipal seat, who, liking well the situation 

 hereof, in 37 Henry VIII. obtained li- 

 cense from the king to impark ccc acres 

 of land, meadow, pasture, and wood, to 

 be called by the name of Weston Park 

 for ever.' ' Disparked also about the 

 middle of the eighteenth century. 



Eatington. — There was a park here in 

 1653, as appears by a lease of that date, 

 and it is laid down in a map made in 

 1738. It was restocked with deer by the 

 Hon. George Shirley, jin 1762. The 



' Dugdale, vol. i. b. 548. 

 ' lb. p. 584. 



