See deer in this short video taken at the end of October. Read what the deer and park keeper says about what the deer are doing in different seasons by clicking on this link. Deer at Knole through the seasons.
The life of deer at Knole, Kent
Tag: deer
Knole National Trust House, Sevenoaks, Kent has deer close at hand
Knole is a magnificent former bishop’s palace with its origins dating back 600 years. It became the property of very wealthy, leading aristocrats, the Sackville family. The family still has private apartments in the vast house.
Surrounding the house are a thousand acres of parkland with 350 wild deer. The herds are very familiar with the thousands of cars and visitors arriving at Knole every year and so show little fear of humans, although it is dangerous to go near these animals. My tiny pocket Sony camera has a good zoom facility so I was able to take this picture from about 60 yards away.
There in the rutting season
When we were there on 26 October we visited the house and then walked in the park. When we were about to leave at about 4 o’clock there were about half a dozen stags only about 100 yards from the car park.
A warden told us that earlier in the day there had been quite a lot of activity but that the stags were all exhausted by the time we first noticed them, mostly lying down. Apparently they had been “at it” for nearly a month (the rutting season) and were now beginning to calm down. Late September the stags are very fat ready to start rutting, but then they don’t eat for a month and do a lot of fighting and mating so no wonder they are exhausted. Still, they’ll have eleven months rest before they can start the fun all over again.
Over the autumn winter season only a restricted part of the house is open to visitors.
Book ahead
You have to book in advance to take your car into the parkland. Visit the website: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/knole/lists/explore-knole-park
Huge zoom on my tiny camera
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Angmering Park Woodland – walk – ride
Monarch's Way track
Easy three and four mile walks and rides through attractive woodlands, with plenty of opportunities to extend routes.
Angmering Park Estate is situated in the middle of Sussex between Worthing and Arundel. There are well surfaced roads or good tracks for most routes.
Start
Start at the Dover Road car park off the A27 road. No toilets or refreshments here or nearby.
Maps
See maps below and have fun with the different views, eg tracks or satellite view, zooming in or out.
Deer
We have heard that deer are often seen in this area. We saw just one fawn when we walked here mid April 2021.
Space for about 40 cars in the Dover Road free car park, open between dawn and dusk
We had never seen so many wood anemones in one place before. They carpeted the ground in their millions in several areas
Wood anemone close up
Great for cycling
Cycling on the Monarch's Way section, a private road and public bridleway
Celandines
Route map for Forest Walk North Of Angmering West O Worthing by David Roberts on plotaroute.com
Route map for Forest Walk North West Of Angmering by David Roberts on plotaroute.com
Interactive map
TO MAKE THE MAP WORK click on “plotaroute” at the bottom right. Then you can
- zoom in to see other paths, for example to extend or vary the routes
- view full screen by clicking the four headed arrow,
- view satellite or cyclable route etc views by clicking the down arrow next to the route type label (top right)
- show down hill sections in green, uphill in orange and steeper uphill in red by clicking DISPLAY, then “Hilliness”
- show current weather and for next days by clicking Menu, “Weather”
- print the map by clicking Menu, “Print”
- download the map by clicking Menu, “Download”
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Happy walking and riding,
David Roberts,
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14 April 2021
