184: PARKS AND PLEASUKE-GROTJMDS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



FENCES OF THE PARK AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



General Remarks — Boundary Fence — Internal Fences — Fence of the 

 Deer Park — Pleasure- Ground Fences — Malleable-iron Fences — 

 Sunk Fences — Stone "Walls — Hedges. 



Both in its original signification and actual usage, 

 the term, Park, denotes an inclosed space. The park, 

 therefore, is always encircled by a boundary or ring 

 fence, of sufficient height to afford protection from 

 without, to retain in their proper places " the beasts 

 of chase," or the cattle that may be kept within it, 

 and to insure that moderate seclusion which is an es- 

 sential requisite to a country residence, in the estima- 

 tion both of its inmates and of those strangers whom 

 the liberality of the proprietor permits to visit and 

 enjoy its scenery. Besides this bounding inclosure, 

 however, internal or divisional fences are necessary. 

 A park of many hundred acres, and including a multi- 

 plicity of objects, invariably requires to be subdivided 

 into lesser portions, for the convenience of grazing, 

 and for other reasons, such as the separation of certain 

 of the wooded surfaces from the pasture-grounds, and 

 the due regulation of the secondary roads, and even 

 sometimes of the main approach. "We shall take up 

 these two classes of fences in succession. 



