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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. IX. 



Near it is Fownhope, where the Chan- 

 dos family had a park as early as the 

 year 13S4. No vestiges of it now remain, 

 beyond the name of the park, retained by 

 a part of the woodlands.^ Duncumb in- 

 forms us there were parks at Pengethley 

 and Harewood, in the southern parts of 

 the county, both of which are now dis- 

 parked. 



At Stoke-Edith is an existing park, 

 containing 214 acres and 220 fallow-deer. 

 Adjoining it are two more ancient parks, 

 called, The Middle Park and Devereux 

 Park, but both are at present without deer. 



Near Ledbury is Easnor Castle. Here 

 is a wild and beautiful park of 515 acres, 

 half of which is open grove covered with 

 fern and gorse. It was enclosed about 

 the year 1820. 



Following the base of the Malvern 

 HiUs we come to Collwall. Here was a 

 park belonging to the Bishops of Here- 

 ford. It is noticed in Leland's ' Itinerary,' 

 but was disparked before Saxton's time. 



A few miles to the west is Asperton, or 

 Ashpurton. Here there appears to have 



been a park held under the Duchy of 

 Lancaster. The herbage and pannage 

 of this park was let to John Norton for 

 thirty-one years, in the nineteenth of 

 Elizabeth, and it was again granted in 

 reversion to John de Cardinas, for thirty- 

 one years, in the twenty-eighth of the 

 same reign.'' 



Existing Deer Parks in Herefordshire. 



1. Brampton-Bryan , 



2. Shobden . . 



3. Staunton. . 



4. TiTLEY . . . 



5. Garnstone . 



6. MOCCAS . . 



7. Hampton-Court 



8. Kentchurch 



9. Holm-Lacy . 



10. Stoke-Edith 



11. Easnor . . 



Lady Langdale. 



Lord Bateman. 



Mr. King. 



Sir Thomas 

 Hastings. 



Mr. Peploe. 



Sir V. Cornwall, 

 Bart. 



Mr. Arkwright. 



Col. Scudamore. 



Sir E. S. Stan- 

 hope, Bart. 



Lady Emily 

 Foley. 



Earl Soraers. 



MONMO UTH SHIRE. 



By an Act of Parliament passed in 1536 

 (twenty-seventh of Henry VIII.), Mon- 

 mouthshire became an English county. 

 Before that period but little information 

 can be gleaned as to the parks within the 

 district, eight of which are given in Sax- 

 ton's map of Monmouthshire, engraved 

 in 1577. The first is that at ' Grace 

 Dieu,' near Monmouth. This park be- 

 longed to the small Cistertian Abbey of 



' Duncumb's Herefordshire, vol. ii. p. 347. 



Grace Dieu, founded, according to Dug- 

 dale, in 1229 by John of Monmouth, and 

 suppressed at the Dissolution, when it 

 was probably disparked. Its memory 

 still lingers in the name of a farm called 

 Parkersdue, a corruption of Pare grace- 

 dieu. 



Llantilio Crasseny. — This park most 

 probably belonged to an ancient moated 

 mansion in this parish, destroyed time out 



» Cotton MS. Titus B. iv. fol. 297. 



