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DEER AND DEER PARKS. 



Ch, X. 



map, is at Dallam Tower, in this neigh- 

 bourhood. It was enclosed in 1720, and 

 contains 300 acres and 150 head of deer. 

 Another was once at Troutbeck, near 

 Ambleside. This was a Royal park, of 

 which the herbage and pannage was 

 granted by Henry VI., in the twenty- 

 fourth yeai: of hig reign, to Thomas 

 Daniell, Esq., together with the windfalls 

 and browsing, at the annual rent of 40^.' 



In the north of this county, near 

 Brougham Castle, on the borders of Cum- 

 berland, is the Forest, or more properly 

 the Chase, of Whitfield. Near it is the 

 comparatively modern and magnificent 

 Park of Lowther,helongmg to the Earl of 

 Lonsdale. 



To the south, near Shap, was the an- 

 cient Park of Crosby-Ravensworth, im- 

 parked by license granted to William de 

 Threkeld, in the tenth year of Edward 

 III.'' 



Two other parks remain to be men- 

 tioned ; those at Hartley Castle and 

 Wharton Hall, near the town of Kirkby- 

 Stephen, on the borders of Yorkshire. 



Existing Deer Parks in Westmoreland. 



1. Levens .... The- Hon. Mrs. 



Howard. 



2. Dallam Tower. Mr. G. Wilson. 



3. LOWTHER . . . Earl of Lonsdale. 



DURHAM. 



The Bishops of Durham from very early 

 times appropriated to themselves several 

 extensive parks within their palatine 

 county. Besides that which was attached 

 to their principal episcopal residence at 

 Bishops-Auckland, and which existed till 

 the death of Bishop Van Mildert in the 

 year 1836, there were large parks at Wol- 

 singham and Stanhope, in Wierdale Fo- 

 rest, and at Evenwood and Middleham, 

 nearer home. From a return of vert and 

 venison, dated on the 15th of May 1457, 

 and preserved in Surtees's ' History of 

 Durham,' ' it appears that there were at 



' Cal. Pat. Rolls, p. 289. 

 2 lb. p. 126, 



that period in the Park of Auckland lod' 

 fallow-deer J in that of Wolsingham, 140; 

 in Stanhope, 200 ; and in Evenwood, 100. 

 There is no return from Middleham, 

 which probably at that time ceased to be 

 an episcopal residence. Leland notices 

 the fair park by the Castle of Akeland 

 ' having falow dere, wild BuUes and kin.' 

 He also observes that he left on his right 

 hand one of the parks of Akeland (Auck- 

 land), walled with stone (Wolsingham ?). 

 And of the park of Stanhope he writes : 

 ' The Bishop of Duresme hath a praty 

 square pile on the north side of the Were 



' I. clviii. 



