GC24Y9Q Protection - Weald Country Park (Traditional Cache) in Eastern England, United Kingdom created by SXParx

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GC24Y9Q ▼

A cache by SXParx Message this owner

Hidden : 3/12/2010

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Geocache Description:

This cache is set as part of the Essex Country Parks/Trailnet - Heritage Lottery Funded Geocaching project.

In Weald Country Park the woodlands are a mixture of conifers and hardwoods, gradually opening out into old deer parkland with pollarded trees. These ‘pollarded’ trees would have been cut at a height of about 10 feet from the ground. This provided a source of wood which was kept well out of reach of browsing deer and cattle

Protection

Weald Country Park has a well documented history going as far back as 1063. The land was given to the Abbots at Waltham Abbey who began the process of shaping the landscape. It was during the 12th century when deer were introduced that the open landscape was formed by constant grazing, preventing the growth of new trees. Since then, deer have been part of the park up to the Second World War when they escaped through a breach in the perimeter fence. The recently introduced fallow deer will help to retain this traditional landscape.

A deer park is a piece of private land surrounded by a deer proof fence, called a park pale, which the owner uses for keeping deer. Deer parks originate from about the time of the Domesday book, in which 35 parks were recorded. The heyday for deer parks was in 1300 with 3200 parks covering about 2% of England. Parks were status symbols and venison was beyond, a gift, money could not buy.

If it wasn’t for Henry VIII parks might have died out. In the 1520’s he revived parks as a romantic landscape and as a place for a ceremonial hunt. In the 18th. century there was another revival at the hands of the landscape designers such as Capability Brown and William Kent. It was during the 18th century the large scale landscaping began at the Park with the construction of the lakes and woodlands the results of these endeavours can be still be enjoyed at the park today

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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