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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch. IX. 



Park, the ancient seat of the Marquis of 

 Cholmondeley. It contains 137 acres, and 

 about 200 fallow-deer. A park a little to 

 the north in the borders of Eddisbury 

 Hundred is marked in Speed's map at 

 Ridley ; it is near Peckforton, the modern 

 castle of Mr. ToUemache, where there are 

 a few tame fallow-deer. 



In the hundred of Broxton is Garden, 

 the seat of the ancient family of Leche, 

 where there is an existing deer park. 

 More to the north is Saighton, once the 

 Grange of the Abbots of St. Werburgh in 

 Chester, to one of whom in the sixth of 

 Henry VIII. license was granted to make 

 a park of 1,000 acres, in Huntington, 

 Cheveley, and Saighton. The project, 

 adds Ormerod, was most probably put an 

 end to by the Reformation.^ Closely ad- 

 joining is Eaton, the seat of the Marquis 



of Westminster, Here is a park of 388 

 acres, with a herd of 300 fallow-deer. It 

 has been stocked with deer since the year 

 1 7 14, as appears by Kips 'Views of Seats' 

 at that period. The park has, however, 

 within the last sixty years been consider^ 

 ably increased. 



Existing Deer Parks in Cheshire. 



1. Lyme . . . Mr. Legh. 



2. Dunham- 1 t7 1 ro^ r j 



MasseyI • Earl of Stamford. 



3. Tatton . . Lord Egerton of Tatton^ 



4. OuLTON . . Sir Philip Egerton, Bart. 



5. Eaton . . Marquis ofWestminster 



6. Cholmonde-] Marquis of Cholmon- 



LEY . . J deley. 



7. DODDINGTON, Sir Henry Broughton, 



Bart. 



8. Carden . . Mr. Leche. 



' Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. ii. p. 420. 



