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| Chillingham Park | Chillingham Park | Mr Wm Hardy bailiff Chillingham | See Sheets | An extensive park, surrounding Chillingham | ||
| Mr Thos Smith farmer Newton | 20.11 | Castle, chiefly of an ornamental description. | ||||
| Whellans Hist. Northld p 680 | 20.12 | It is subdivided from N. to S. by a high | ||||
| Whellans Hist. Northld p 680 | 20.15 | Paling, and the Eastern division used as | ||||
| Chillingham Park | The County Map | 20.16 | a Deer park, "It (according to Whellans Hist. | |||
| 21.91 | of Northld P 680) contains a large herd of | |||||
| 21.13 | deer, and is celebrated for the only uncon- | |||||
| Chillingham Park | White’s Directory Vol.II P 502 | taminated breed of wild cattle in the | ||||
| Chillingham Park | Hutchinson’s Northumberland | Kingdom. This breed is called the Scottish bison. | ||||
| Vol.1 P 239 | There is a vague tradition that they were originally en | |||||
| closed from the Northumbrian, or Caledonian forests | ||||||
| in the time of King John or Henry 3rd, when the | ||||||
| park was first enclosed, but their existence here has | ||||||
| long been considered an interesting problem of natural | ||||||
| history"…"the body is pure white, the muzzle brown, | ||||||
| the ears red, (only inside)..and they appear to be of a | ||||||
| species quite distinct from the English Oxen" | ||||||
| Robert Young Corporal Royal Engineers |
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