. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY There is one large park in the parish, that of Farnhara Castle. This is nearly three miles in circuit and contains over 300 acres. It used to be called the New or Little Park, and Farnham Old or Great Park lay west by north of it, and was nearly three times as large, containing over 800 acres. It extended however beyond the county into Hampshire about Crondall, and reached northwards to the high ground at Beacon Hill, and above the Long \'alley, Aldershot. The Great Park was disparked by Act of Parliament unde
. The Victoria history of the county of Surrey. Natural history. A HISTORY OF SURREY There is one large park in the parish, that of Farnhara Castle. This is nearly three miles in circuit and contains over 300 acres. It used to be called the New or Little Park, and Farnham Old or Great Park lay west by north of it, and was nearly three times as large, containing over 800 acres. It extended however beyond the county into Hampshire about Crondall, and reached northwards to the high ground at Beacon Hill, and above the Long \'alley, Aldershot. The Great Park was disparked by Act of Parliament under Bishop Mews in 1696,20 and some of the land was further enclosed in Both parks were stocked with deer,'* and contained rabbit warrens, where the poaching of the inhabitants of the neighbouring parishes in Surrey aroused the indignation of William of Wykeham.^' The evil continued in More's time, when pheasants also were taken. The deer were originally the native red deer such as ran wild in the neighbouring Alice Holt and Windsor Forests, and in Farnham Chase. tury. A demand for houses has arisen, and in the northern part of the parish there are not only many small new houses, but some of a better class occupied by married officers connected with the camp. The actual exercising ground of the camp reaches into the parish at Hungry Hill, and at the west end of the Long Valley, and north-west of the valley near Caesar's Camp. In the south of the parish, about Tilford, and on the slopes of Crooksbury Hill, large houses have been recently built, as a part of the general process which has transformed the once desolate Surrey heaths into a residential neighbourhood. Farnham was the birthplace of WiUiam Cobbett, author of Rural Rides, etc. The house in which he was born, now the Jolly Farmer public-house, is still standing. The antiquities of the parish, apart from Waver- ley Abbey and the Castle, which need separate treatment, are fairly numerous but rather obscure. There are
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