The Deer- Leap at Wolseley Park, in Staffordshire, on the borders of Cannock Chase. 



CHAPTER IX. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



jHE county of Gloucester, re- 

 markable for the number of 

 its deer parks, and generally 

 also for their small extent, 

 can boast, however, of but one park which 

 is known to have existed at the period of 

 the Norman Conquest, and which is no- 

 ticed in the Domesday Survey, that at 



Sopeberie, the modern Sodbury, and which 

 belonged to the king. In Leland's time 

 a park still existed here, which is thus 

 mentioned in his ' Itinerary ' : ' There is 

 a Parke of the Kyng's by this towne 

 (Cheping Sodbiry) sumtyme the War- 

 wicks,' and also at Little Sodbu?y ad- 

 joining. ' Walshe is Lord of Little Sod- 



