THE DEER PARK, c.1880

 
 

A C19th painting of the Park

 
 

Watercolour showing fallow deer in the shade of an ancient oak tree

 
  Whitaker's List of 1892 records the Park as "about 200 acres, owned by George Holt Wilson Esq, the fence oak palings, the water supply natural and artificial, the number of Fallow Deer about 60, and the average weight of the bucks about 8 stone"  

 
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