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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. VII. 



an ancient park, which also is noted by 

 Saxton. It has been long disparked. 



At Stanford, the seat of the Winning- 

 tons, was a park formed in the early part 

 of the last century, and disparked about 

 the year 1790. There were also parks at 

 Ham Castle and Eastham, in this neigh- 

 bourhood. The first, which formerly be- 

 longed to the family of Jeffreys, was dis- 

 parked at the close of the eighteenth 

 century. At the latter a farm called Park 

 Farm still exists. It once belonged to 

 the Come walls.' 



Kyre Park was enclosed by John Kyare 

 in the third year of Edward III., origi- 

 nally said to have contained 500 acres. 

 In Nash's time but 180. Mr. Habington 

 mentions ' the tall and mighty oaks as 

 scarce any ground in England, within 

 that quantityof acres, can show so many.'^ 

 It was disparked by the present proprie- 

 tor, Mr, Child, within the last ten years. 



' Information of Sir Thomas Winnington, 

 Bart. 



Sutton Park, in Tenbury near Kyre, was 

 the seat of the Actons in the reign of 

 Henry IV., and afterwards passed to the 

 Lucys of Charlecote in Warwickshire. It 

 occurs in Saxton's Map. 



Spetchley Park, near Worcester, con- 

 tains about 130 acres, and 170 fallow and 

 a few red-deer. It was enclosed in the 

 reign of Charles I. 



List of Existing Deer Parks in the County 

 of Worcester. 



1. Croome 



2. Elmley Castle , 



3. northwick 



4. Hanbury . 



5. Westwood . 



6. Hagley 



7. Witley 



8. Spetchley . 



Earl of Coventry, 

 Lady Pakington. 

 Lord North wick. 

 Mr. Vernon. 

 Sir John Pakington^ 



Bart. 

 Lord Lyttelton. 

 Earl of Dudley. 

 Mr. Berkeley. 



Nash, vol. ii. p. 70. 



