Figure 1. The number of fallow deer recorded on the annual count in Epping
Forest, 1896-1965.
also isolated records of deer in the Chipping Ongar-Chelmsford-Great Dunmow
area, Whitehead (1964) mentioning their occurrence at various places in this
region. In the late 1950s fallow deer were common in the woods at South Weald
(Day, 1957) and in 1963-1964, they were recorded between there and Chipping
Ongar.
The only other pre-1965 Essex records of wild fallow deer are from the
Coggeshall-Stisted area in the north of the county. The deer were driven out of
Wivenhoe Park by the army during the Second World War and the last animal
was killed about 1944. However, the Keeper of Natural History at the Colchester
and Essex Museum, Clifford Owen, reported fallow deer in the vicinity of the
park in 1958.
1965-1969 records
The records of fallow deer in Essex during the five year period 1965-1969
are shown on Map 4 and are summarized in Appendix 3. Areas where deer were
not found are also shown on the map.
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