Descriptive List of the Deer-Parks and Paddocks of England #265933

OR sylvan beauty and variety of timber, few landscapes can compare with an English deer-park. Many a wanderer in Western lands has remarked that on quitting the prairie and crossing a mountain-spur, he has entered upon a well-watered and well-timbered valley which reminded him of nothing so much as a deer-park in England. N o greater compliment could be paid or deserved. Englishmen may with justice boast of their parks, from royal Windsor and lordly Savernake to those of less pretensions, many of which, though less than fifty acres in extent, exhibit on a smaller scale the varied beauties of their larger rivals. In England there are deer-parks and paddocks of all sizes, from 4000 acres at Savernake to a single acre at Bagnall House. They are no less varied in their shape and appearance than in the size and beauty of their timber.