The Estate
The estate covers 850 acres (3.4 km²) of woods and open grassland laid out by Humphrey Repton. It includes two pitch-and-putt golf courses, a Disc Golf Course, an orienteering course and horse riding and mountain bike trails. There is a deer park which was started in the 14th century and extended in the 16th and 17th centuries. The park contains a great variety of wildlife; much of the site (an area of 210.31 hectares) was notified in 1998 as a Site of Special Scientific Interest due to the presence of rare woodland beetles.
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Famous quotes containing the word estate:
“I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish th’ estate o’ the world were now undone.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Not a flock of wild geese cackles over our town, but it to some extent unsettles the value of real estate here, and, if I were a broker, I should probably take that disturbance into account.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)