Ch. VIII. 



NO TTINGHA M SHIRE. 



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sided to be near Hatfield Chase, in York- 

 shire. ^ 



North of Scroby, Saxton marks a park 

 at Finningley, and another at Gringley 

 near East Retford. The last was a park 

 belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster, in 

 the twenty-seventh year of Queen Eliza- 

 beth let to Thomas Markham, Esq , for 

 thirty-one years at the rent of 7/. 6j. %d. 

 The park was divided into the East and 



West Parks ; » it has been long disused 

 and disparked. 



£xisting Deer Parks in Nottingham- 

 shire. 



1. WOLLATON . Lord Middleton. 



2. RUFFORD . Mr. Savile. 



3. Annesley . Mr. Chaworth Musters. 



4. Thoresby . Earl Manvers. 



5. Welbeck . The Duke of Portland. 



LINCOLNSHIRE. 



Indications of fourteen parks appear in 

 Saxton's Survey of this extensive county, 

 engraved in 1576. They were generally 

 on its north-western bounds, and towards 

 the south on the marches of Leicester- 

 shire, Rutlandshire, and Northampton- 

 shire. In this latter locality two parks, 

 called 'The Red-dere »k,' and 'The 

 Fallow-dere pk,' ar-e marked at Grims- 

 thorpe, the ancestral seat of Lord Wil- 

 loughby de Eresby. One of these parks, 

 characterised by Leland as ' a fayre parke 

 betwixt Vauldey and Grimsthorpe,' is 

 noticed in the ' Itinerary ' of that most 

 accurate and agreeable topographer. In 

 Kip's 'Views of Seats,' engraved in 1714, 

 there are two birdseye views of this grand 

 old place, exhibiting the various avenues 

 and rides in the woods. At present the 

 whole extent of Grimsthorpe Park is 1,992 

 acres. The deer, which still comprehend 

 both red and fallow, are confined to 1,190 

 acres. There were formerly about 1,800 

 of the latter, but the number is now re- 



' See Godwin, p. 71, and Stowe, p. 309. 

 ' Cotton MS., Titus B., iv. p. 297. 



duced, and the deer greatly increased in 

 size and weight. There are about 60 red- 

 deer at Grimsthorpe. The following are 

 the dimensions of two stag-heads killed 

 here in September 1864 ; — No. r. Length 

 of horns, 35^ inches ; width between the 

 horns, 34 in. ; size round the horn at 

 the root, 8 in. ; number of points, 12. — 

 No. 2. Length 40J in. ; width, 35I in. ; 

 size round, 8^ in. ; number of points, 1 1. 

 The timber in this park is very fine, oaks, 

 horse-chestnuts, and thorns growing to a 

 great size, and many of them of very great 

 age. When Grimsthorpe was first im- 

 fiarked appears to be uncertain, but it is 

 undoubtedly a park of great antiquity, 

 and if we may believe the tradition of the 

 place, the keepership of the pa;rk remained 

 in the same family, of the name of Scole, 

 from the first beginning of the park till 

 the reign of George IV.' 



A little north of Grimsthorpe two other 

 parks are marked in Saxton's map, at Irn- 

 ham, and near Aslackby. The former is a 



' Partly derived from the information of the 

 late Lady Willoughby de Eresby. 



