Ch. VIII. 



DERB y SHIRE. 



171 



Belper?- The park here was called ' The 

 Lady Park.' * The herbage and pasturage, 

 worth 1 3 J. 4^. per annum, was granted 

 in reversion for thirty years to Robert 

 Holmes in the seventeenth of Queen 

 Elizabeth,' and finally passed from the 

 Crown in the rei^ of Charles I.* 



The Park of Schymynd-cliffe I find only 

 noticed by Lysons as one of the Duffield 

 Parks, unless indeed it is identical with 

 Holland Park and Holland Wood, a 

 manor in the parish of Wirksworth, 

 which was given by Thomas Earl of 

 Lancaster to Sir Robert Holland, and 

 forfeited by the attainder of Henry Hol- 

 land Duke of Exeter in 141 1. The park 

 is marked by Saxton. 



To the east of this group of Duchy 

 Parks (the ancient hunting preserves of 

 the House of Lancaster), there were in the 

 Elizabethan period, as we find by Saxton's 

 Survey, several parks, of which the largest 

 was Codnor, in Heanor parish, the an- 

 cient seat of the Greys, and afterwards of 

 the Zouches. Here Robert Lord Grey in 

 1330 claimed four parks, and Robert 

 ,Strelley, Esq., two parks, in the manor of 

 Shipley, in the same parish : but one was 

 allowed, the other, Estinker, was stocked 

 with deer, but being only a new enclosure 

 was not allowed as a park/ There were 

 also parks, now, with the others above- 

 mentioned, long disused, at two other 

 places in this parish, at Aldercar and at 

 Loscoe. Two more must be noted in this 

 part of the county, Denby Park and 

 Kiddesley Park : the former belonged to 

 the Rosels, in the reign of Henry IIL, 



' Lysons, p. 140. , ^ , 



« Wardmote of Duffield Frith, penes Earl 

 Ferrers. 

 ' Cotton MSS. Titus, B. iv. fo. 297. 

 < Lysons, p. 136. 



and the latter to the Abbot of Chester in 

 1 235.* At both Pentrich and South 

 Winfield, a little to the south of Morley 

 Park, were two parks : those of Pentrich 

 belonged to the Abbot and Convent of 

 Darley, ' and the site of one of them,' 

 adds Lysons, ' tho' long since disparked, 

 retains the name.' ' Of the Winfield 

 Parks, the larger, extending into the 

 parish of Pentrich, contained Jiearly 

 1,000 acres.'' 



In the adjoining parishes of Alfreion 

 and Shirland there were ancient parks, 

 the former belonging to the Chaworth 

 and the latter to the Grey family. Both 

 were claimed as parks in 1330,^ and both 

 appear in Saxton's Survey of 1577. Al- 

 freton was an existing park in 1817. 

 Shirland was then long disparked. 



In 1380, also, Roger Deincourt claimed 

 a park at Morton, a manor in the imme- 

 diate neighbourhood.* 



Further north, in the parish of Ches- 

 terfield, there was a park at Wingeworth, 

 the seat of the Hunloke family in 1817, 

 and at Walton, the ancient seat of the 

 Foljambes, existing in 1577. 



At Sutton-in-the-Dale, belonging to the 

 Leakes and to Lord Ormond in 181 7, and 

 at Bolsover, enclosed in the year 1200 

 (and long ago converted into tillage)." 

 Lysons quotes the pipe roll of the second 

 of John to prove that yil. was expended at 

 that period for its enclosure by the King. 



East of Bolsover, oij the borders of 

 Nottinghamshire, is Langwith, where the 

 Bassett family had twol parks in I330,'« 

 and more to the south Htrdwick, the fine 



' lb. p. 181, quoting thelffuo inarranto roll 

 of the fourth Edward III. \ 

 " Lysons, pp. 188-214. 

 ' lb. pp. 230-292. " lb. bp. 4, 214, 254. 

 " lb. p. 54, '° lb. h ■"« 



