CH.X. 



YORKSHIRE. 



225 



York, the modern park of Escrick, en- 

 closed in the years 1823-4, and containing 

 about 480 acres, and a herd of 400 fallow- 

 deer. 



I find Burstwick Park in 1604 is said 

 to have contained 160 fallow-deer.* It 

 appears then to have been held under the 

 Crown. 



The origin of the Park of Burton-Con- 

 stable appears to be unknown : it is un- 

 doubtedly very ancient. -At present it 

 contains 290 acres, and herds of 160 red 

 deer and 350 fallow-deer of all colours. 



At Rise in th"is neighbourhood is a park 



belonging to Mr. Bethell, and more to the 

 north, at Sledmere, another, the property 

 of Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart. 



Existing Deer Parks in the East Riding 

 of Yorkshire. 



1. EVERINGHAM . . . Lord Herries. 



2. BuRTON-CONsfABLK Sir Clifford Con- 



stable, Bart. 



3. Escrick Park . . Lord Wenlock. 



4- Rise Mr. Bethell. 



5- Sledmere .... Sir Tatton Sykes, 



Bart. 



WES TMORELA ND. 



' Ther be about Kendale divers fair 

 wooddes, as Master Parris Parke, and 

 many other,' is the remark of Leland in 

 his 'Itinerary." A glance at Saxton'smap, 

 Engraved in 1576, will prove the accuracy 

 of the venerable topographer. Fifteen an- 

 cient parks will be found in that survey 

 clustered about the town of Kendal. To the 

 north, Colnheadj.Sterlmere, and Fir bank. 

 To the west, Camswick Park, a park be- 

 longing to the castle of Kendal. South of 

 the town, Watlande, Seggeswick, Sisergh, 

 Brigster Park, Levens, Witherslok, Be- 

 tham, and Preston. 



Sisergh was imparked by license granted 

 to Sir Walter de Strickland in the ninth 

 of Edward 1 1 1.» 



Of these ancient parks Levens is the 



' Lambeth MSS. No. 709. 



' Vol. V. p. 130, fol. 85. 



' Burn's Westmoreland, vol. i. p. 87. 



sole existing one. It was originally en- 

 closed in the thirty-fourth year of Edward 

 III., when Thomas de Strickland ob- 

 tained a license to impark his woods here 

 containing 300 acres of land.* Levens 

 Park contains at present 178 acres, and 

 a herd of 250 fallow-deer. 



Betham Park, or Bitham, as he writes 

 it, was noticed by Leland as 'a great 

 parke and a goodly place yn hit of the 

 Erie of Darby." 



Preston appears to have been imparked 

 by license granted to Richard de Preston 

 in the forty-second of Edward III.' 



To the east of Kendal, two other parks, 

 a.t.Middleton and Bar born, are given in 

 Saxton's Survey, 



An existing park, not given in the older 



* Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 173. 

 ' Itin. vol. v. p. 100, fol. 85. 

 ' Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 184. 



