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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. VI I r. 



At Ilkeston also, a parish in the neigh- 

 bourhood, on the borders of Nottingham- 

 shire, the family of Cantilupe are said to 

 have had two parks in 1330.^ 



More to the south, but still to the east of 

 Derby, is the parish of Spandon. Here 

 was an ancient park called Stanley, where- 

 in Dale Abbey was founded ;* here also 

 is an existing park, called Locko, origi- 

 nally Lockhay. It is said to be an an- 

 cient park, of 260 acres and about 200 

 fallow-deer. The Bardolfs had an an- 

 cient park at Ockbrook, and the Abbot of 

 Dale another, which had been made by 

 the Grendons, in the early part of the 

 thirteenth century. 



Three parks are marked by Saxton in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of Ock- 

 brook— at Hopwell,Risley, and Sandiacre. 

 The second appears to have been called 

 Woodhall Park, and belonged to the 

 Babington and afterwards to the Shef- 

 field family. It has been long converted 

 into tillage.^ 



At Little-Eaton, three miles north of 

 Derby, Philip de Wilughby enclosed a 

 park in the reign of Richard I.' 



In that part of Derbyshire south of the 

 county town were the parks of Melbourne, 

 Repion,Smisby,Croxall,3.nADrakelo'w,3.nA 

 the existing parks of Calke and Bretby. 



Melbourne was the palace and park of 

 the Bishops of Carhsle. It passed to the 

 Coke family by agreement and an Act of 

 Parliament in 1 704. The park has been 

 long cultivated and destroyed." 



Repton Park was the inheritance of the 

 Findernes and ifterwards of the Harpurs. 

 The park paling existed in 1817." 



'Lysons, p. 1^3. ^ lb. p.261. 



^ lb. p. 225. ' lb. p. 123. 



'lb. p. 211. The keepers of this park of 

 Melbourne are said to have had their offerings 

 free on Candlemis Day : ' and their parson and 

 curate found llem a taper of wax for their 



At Sinisby, John Shepey, in answer to a 

 quo warranto, in 1330, stated that his an- 

 cestors had from time immemorial had a 

 park within their manor there.' 



Croxall Park is marked in Saxton's 

 Survey. It was a seat of the Curzon family. 



Drakelow, the ancient seat of the Gres- 

 leys, appears among Lysons' list of parks, 

 existing in the year 181 7. It is marked 

 by Saxton. 



Sir John Harpur Crewe's park at Calke 

 Abbey does not appear in the ancient 

 maps, but is by no means a modern park^ 

 It is a fine and richly wooded area of 500 

 acres, with a herd of between 600 and 700 

 head of fallow and red-deer. 



The date of Lord Chesterfield's beauti-- 

 ful park at Bretby is also uncertain, though 

 undoubtedly ancient. Mr. WoUey in his 

 MS. account of Derbyshire (1712) speaks 

 of it as 'a very large park, well wooded 

 and stored with several kinds of deer and 

 exotic beasts.' There is a curious view of 

 it in Kip's ' Noveaux Theatre de la Grande 

 Bretagne.' Bretby contains at present 450 

 acres, and a large herd of menil, Manilla, 

 or spotted deer, only. 



Existing Deer Parks in Derbyshire. 



1. Hardwick . 



2. Chatsworth 



3. Keddleston 



4. Sudbury . 

 J. Bretby 



6. Calke 



7. Alderwasley 



8. Locko. 



9. Stanton . 



The Duke of De- 

 vonshire. 



Lord Scarsdale. 



Lord Vernon. 



Earl of Chesterfield 



Sir John Harpur 

 Crewe, Bart. ■ 



Mr. Hurt. 



Mr. Lowe. 



Mr. Thornhill. 



offering that day free, without paying anything 

 for the same.' The head of the Melbourne 

 family is said also to have by custom an annual 

 buck from Hardwick Hall. See the Reliquary, 

 vol. i. p. 240. 



° lb. p. 237. ' lb. p. 245. " lb. p. 240. 



