76 THE MAMMALS, REPTILES, AND FISHES OF ESSEX.
The list of parks in Essex containing Deer in the year
1892 was given in The Essex Review (vol. iii., 1894, p. 136), and
may well be appended here. It is derived from A Descrip-
tive List of the Deer Parks and Paddocks of England, by
Joseph Whitaker, F.Z.S. (London, 1892). The number of
deer parks appears to be ten, about which there is the follow-
ing information :
Easton Park.—700 acres, 450 Fallow Deer, 120 Red
Deer. Well-timbered and well-watered; many fine oaks;
rather flat.
Hatfield Forest.—500 acres, 300 Fallow Deer, 10 Red
Deer. Flat; well-timbered ; some enclosed game coverts in
the park ; ponds ; rather wild ; oaks very fine. It was till
recent times a forest.
Thorndon Hall.—North Park, 341 acres: South Park,
373 acres ; 50 Fallow Deer, 40 Red Deer. Timber very fine ;
park undulating; scenery varied and picturesque. A large
herd of deer, about 1,200 strong was killed down some
few years ago, after the destruction. by fire of the
mansion.
Weald Park.—300 acres, 80 Fallow Deer, 70 Red Deer,
9 Japanese Deer, 2 Roe Deer. Very fine oak and hornbeam
timber; large amount of fern, five to six feet high in
places.
Boreham Park.—300 acres, 120 Fallow Deer.
BELHUS PARK.—300 acres, 100 Fallow Deer (formerly
300). This park has the ancient and now uncommon right
of " free warren."
Marks Hall Park.—200 acres, 200 Fallow Deer.
Wyvenhoe Park.—180 acres, 100 Fallow Deer (all
black). Fine old oaks (between four and five hundred years
old), limes, elms, and beeches ; eighty acres of fern ; four