Windsor Great Park

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The Great Park is a gently undulating area of varied landscape. It has sweeping deer lawns, small woods, coverts and areas covered by huge solitary ancient oak trees. There is a small river in the north of the park called the Battle Bourne running to the Thames near Datchet. The River Bourne runs through a number of ponds to the south. Chief amongst these are Great Meadow Pond and Obelisk Pond, near the great lake of Virginia Water. The most prominent hill is Snow Hill and the avenue of trees known as the Long Walk runs between here and Windsor Castle. The area is accessed by a number of gates: Queen Anne's Gate, Ranger's Gate, Cranbourne Gate, Forest Gate, Sandpit Gate, Prince Consort's Gate, Blacknest Gate, Bishop's Gate and Bear's Rails Gate and the original medieval park pale can still be seen in places. The main road known as Sheet Street (A332) into Windsor runs through the northeast of the park. On the western side of the park is The Village, built in the 1930s to house Royal estate workers. It has a village shop and infant/junior school. Other buildings include the Royal Lodge, Cumberland Lodge, the Cranbourne Tower and Norfolk Farm. The park lies mostly within the civil parish of Old Windsor, though the eastern regions are in the Borough of Runnymede and there are small areas in the parishes of Winkfield and Sunninghill. Areas associated with or attached to the Great Park, but not officially within its borders include the Home Park, Mote Park, Flemish Farm, Cranbourne Chase, Forest Lodge and South Forest.

Windsor Great Park has one of the largest collections of ancient oaks remaining in Western Europe.{{Cite web |title=The Long Walk & Deer Park |url=https://www.windsorgreatpark.co.uk/explore/the-park/the-long-walk-deer-park/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=Windsor Great Park |date=30 September 2022 |language=en-GB}} The oldest is a huge pedunculate oak known as King Offa's Oak, which grows in a private area of the estate. Tree experts estimate the tree's age as 1,300-1,500 years old,{{Cite news |date=2022-04-30 |title=From ancient oaks to walking yews: the story of Britain's great trees, forests and avenues |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/30/from-ancient-oaks-to-walking-yews-the-story-of-britains-great-trees-forests-and-avenues-aoe |access-date=2023-12-08 |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite web |date=2019-08-13 |title=Oak processionary moth strikes at the 'heart of English oak' |url=https://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/essential-arb/17833980.oak-processionary-moth-strikes-heart-english-oak/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=Forestry Journal |language=en}} making this ancient tree the oldest oak in the United Kingdom since the collapse of the Pontfadog oak, surpassing the 1,000 year old Bowthorpe Oak,{{Cite web |date=2020-10-29 |title=A quick look into England's oldest trees - The Traditional Company |url=https://www.thetraditionalco.co.uk/a-quick-look-into-englands-oldest-trees/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |language=en-GB}} and the 1,200-year old Marton Oak in Cheshire,{{Cite web | url=http://www.ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/The-Marton-Oak-for-March-2017.pdf | title=The Marton Oak, Cheshire | website=www.ancienttreeforum.co.uk}} the latter of which also being the widest tree in the UK. Other famous and ancient trees in the park include the popular Conqueror's oak in Cranbourne Park.{{Cite web |title=Pedunculate Oak 'William the Conqueror's Oak' in Windsor Great Park, Windsor, England, United Kingdom |url=https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/gbr/england/berkshire/2651_windsorgreatpark/32931/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=www.monumentaltrees.com}}

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Windsor Castle was begun in the 11th century by William the Conqueror as it afforded a good defensive point over the River Thames. A vast area of Windsor Forest to the south of the castle became reserved by the King for personal hunting and also to supply the castle with wood, deer, boar and fish. It was not until later that it became necessary to formally define this area. In 1129, the first parker was appointed, and in 1240, King Henry III officially set out the borders of the "Park", a region many times larger than the current Great Park. The castle was a mere fortress at this time and, when hunting, King Henry would have been resident at the more comfortable manor house of Old Windsor (what later became known as Manor Lodge). The title "Parker" exists today as "Ranger of the Park", the current title-holder being Charles III. Kings Edward I and Edward III used the park for jousts and tournaments and the latter had his Royal stud there to supply horses for the Hundred Years' War. The moat at Bear's Rails contained the manor house of Wychamere, the home of William of Wykeham while he was building the castle. It was later used for bear-baiting.

By the 18th century, the food value of the parkland to Windsor had decreased in importance and the new Hanoverian monarchs preferred to build on and garden the land rather than hunt in it. The Long Walk had been laid out by King Charles II and the planting of its trees completed by William of Orange in the 1680s, with double rows of elms which lasted until World War II, but the Georges extended it and built numerous features and monuments, such as the Copper Horse (depicting George III) and the Obelisk (in honour of William, Duke of Cumberland). George III had a set of 2,000-year-old Roman ruins imported from Libya and placed in the park.

Virginia Water was begun in 1746 by William, Duke of Cumberland who was then Ranger of the Park. Few details are recorded of the building of the lake; however it has been suggested that prisoners of war from the recent Jacobite risings, who were encamped at the nearby Breakheart hill, were involved. The original lake was much smaller than the current form, and was destroyed in a flood in 1768. In 1780, Paul and Thomas Sandby began construction of a much larger lake at the site, and went on to add an artificial waterfall, Meadow Pond and Obelisk Pond. The lake replaced a small stream of the same name which was probably named after Queen Elizabeth I, who was known as the "Virgin Queen".

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Queen Victoria created the park that still exists. The Windsor Castle Act 1848 was implemented to reform land use and rights around Windsor Castle. This led to the removal of existing roads and the creation of new ones to redirect people away from the Home Park. The changes were the result of the death of Prince Albert, when Queen Victoria largely withdrew from public life. At Frogmore she built a Royal Mausoleum for Albert. She was later buried there upon her own death, along with a number of other subsequent members of the royal family.

During the 19th and early 20th century, one of the main events for farmers near and far was the Christmas sale of stock from the Royal Windsor Estates. Held on the same week as the Smithfield Show, buyers came from all over the country to buy something from the monarch. The sale in 1850 was held on 17 December by Messrs Buckland & Sons of Windsor. It included Superior Fat Heifers for £20 each; 10 fat ewes, fed by Prince Albert, for 33/10; Fine Old Wether Sheep, fed by His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, for 40/6. The sale made a total of £226.The History of Buckland & Sons, Edward Barry Bowyer FRICS, (published 1973) On 12 December 1894, Messrs Buckland & Sons were proud to announce:

{{poemquote|The Prince Consort's Flemish Farm

A Xmas sale of fat stock belonging to HM the Queen

ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1894

At One o'Clock precisely

Carriages will meet the Trains at both Windsor StationsA history of the Auction, Brian Learmount, Iver: Barnard & Learmont, 1985, pages 68–69}}

The Smith's Lawn area of the Park began to be used for flying in the 1920s, an activity which continued in various forms until the early 1950s. Improvements were made to the grass landing area in the mid 1930s, when it was used by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII). He operated several different types of aircraft from here, including several types of de Havilland airplanes, ranging from Moths to Dragon Rapides.

On 29 April 1931, Gordon Olley landed a large (for the time) twin-engine Imperial Airways airliner, the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy ("City of Glasgow"), at Smith's Lawn.{{Cite web |title=Smiths Lawn - UK Airfield Guide |url=https://www.ukairfieldguide.net/airfields/Smiths-Lawn |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=www.ukairfieldguide.net}}

In 2016, the Duke of Edinburgh unveiled a memorial at Smith's Lawn to its use as an airfield. He himself had made his first solo flight from there in 1952, after regular use of the site as an airfield had ceased.{{Cite news |date=2016-04-11 |title=Smith's Lawn airfield memorial unveiled by Duke of Edinburgh |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-36012601 |access-date=2023-03-06}}

During the war, aviation related activities included a factory dispersal site (to minimize the risk of Luftwaffe bombing) for Vickers-Armstrongs, who built and maintained Wellington bombers here. Other wartime aviation activities included use as a Relief Landing Ground for de Havilland Tiger Moth trainers at nearby No. 18 Elementary Flying Training School at Fairoaks.{{Cite web |title=Smith's Lawn - Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust UK |url=https://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/airfield-finder/smiths-lawn/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=www.abct.org.uk}}

The Smith's Lawn area of the Park was also used for housing troops. During the 1940s, much of the deer park was ploughed and farmed for food, which involved the felling of hundreds of ancient trees. Over 200 large bombs fell on the land, including several V-2 rockets. During the 1948 Summer Olympics, the park was used as the road cycling venue.{{cite web|url=http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf|title=1948 Summer Olympics official report|pages=43–4|website=La84foundation.org|access-date=8 June 2017}} In the 1950s, the Park was gradually turned into the recreation area open to the public that it is today. This involved the re-planting of Savill Gardens (which had been allowed to run wild during the war) and the new Valley Gardens. In 1951, a large wall for creeping plants was built at Savill using bricks from bombed-out London buildings. In 1958, a Totem pole was installed nearby, a gift from British Columbia to the Queen.

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In 1972 the Irish anarchist Ubi Dwyer organised the "People's Free Festival", the first of the Windsor Free Festivals in the Park, attended by 700 people. A co-organiser Sid Rawle claimed that Windsor Great Park has been common land until the 18th century, and illegally inclosed (made private) by George III. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was reported to be "furious". Ubi and his allies repeated the festival in 1973 with at least 1,400 in attendance. In 1973, the {{visible anchor|Windsor Great Park Regulations 1973}} (SI 1973/1113) were introduced. In 1974, 7,000 people turned up but it was violently broken up by police, who made 220 arrests, and the festival was banned. Dwyer was jailed the next year for distributing leaflets to promote another festival and Rawle was given three months for reproducing parts of Ubi's leaflets in the underground newspaper International Times.Obituary, Sid Rawle, The Times, October 2010

The modern enclosed deer park is at the northern end of the Great Park. It is home to a large herd of semi-wild red deer, reflecting the original medieval purpose of the park.

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The tree-lined {{convert|2.64|mi}} avenue known as the Long Walk was originally a path from Windsor Castle to Snow Hill. The high ground is said to have been the location where Henry VIII waited to hear the news that his second wife, Anne Boleyn, had been executed. Following the Restoration in 1660, Charles II had double rows of elm trees planted along the entire length of the path. The king was inspired to develop Windsor Castle and the surrounding parkland after he lived at the Palace of Versailles during his exile from Britain when it was the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. The creation of the Long Walk was one of his first improvement plans.{{cite web|url=https://www.windsor-berkshire.co.uk/the-long-walk/|title=The Long Walk|website=www.windsor-berkshire.co.uk|access-date=19 September 2022}}

In 1710 Queen Anne had the path through the centre of the trees replaced by a road so coaches could use the route to enter and leave Windsor Castle.

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The Long Walk runs south from Windsor Castle to The Copper Horse statue of King George III atop Snow Hill. The cast statue, which was erected 1829, is {{convert|2.65|mi}} from the George IV Gateway at Windsor Castle to The Copper Horse.{{cite web|url=http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/greatpark/longwalk.html |title=The Long Walk, Windsor Great Park – Information pictures and history – The Royal Windsor Web Site by Thamesweb |website=Thamesweb.co.uk |date=28 December 2000 |access-date=7 June 2017}} Other equestrian statues in the park include one of Albert, Prince Consort, to the west of the polo grounds, and one of Queen Elizabeth II near the Village.

The Royal Lodge was built in the centre of the park as the Deputy Ranger's house. It was made into a retreat for the Prince Regent from 1812, but was largely pulled down after his death. The remains were renovated, in the 1930s, as a home for the Duke and Duchess of York before their accession as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. It is now the official residence of Prince Andrew, Duke of York and not accessible by the public.

The Royal Chapel of All Saints was built after the chapels of the Royal and Cumberland Lodges proved too small for growing numbers of household staff.{{cite book|author=Jane Roberts|title=Royal Landscape: The Gardens and Parks of Windsor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYoMNbYfsQ4C&pg=PA347|year=1997|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-07079-8|pages=347–}} The chapel was built in 1825 by Jeffry Wyattville and regularly used by George IV during the refurbishment of Windsor Castle. It was later remodelled in the Gothic Revival style by Samuel Sanders Teulon and Anthony Salvin. Queen Victoria often attended the chapel as did the Duke and Duchess of York before their accession as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.{{cite web |work=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1389473/Princes-return-to-a-family-in-grief.html|title=Princes return to a family in grief|author=Caroline Davies|date=April 2002 |access-date=6 December 2013}} It was regularly used by Queen Elizabeth II when she was in residence at Windsor.

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Other notable buildings in the park include Cumberland Lodge, built in 1652 during the Commonwealth. After the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 the Lodge quickly became the home of the Ranger of the Great Park, an office in the gift of the sovereign. Each Ranger made his – or in one case, that of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, her – own mark on the features of the house and its surroundings.

Throughout her life Queen Victoria was a frequent visitor. Her daughter Princess Helena of the United Kingdom lived at the Lodge for over fifty years, presiding over elaborate re-building after a major fire in 1869 and extensive alterations in 1912. Lord FitzAlan, last British Viceroy of Ireland, was the last private person to be entrusted with the Lodge. It was in his time, at the Lodge in 1936, that the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, discussed the crisis over King Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson with the king's secretary, talks which led to Edward's abdication of the crown a few weeks later. In 1947, the King made the Lodge available to the newly established St. Catharine's Foundation, later known as the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Foundation of St Catharine's. Today the organisation is simply known as Cumberland Lodge. Cumberland Lodge today is an educational charity dedicated to initiating fresh debate on questions facing society. The grounds are not generally open to the public, but the house is continually holding conferences, open days and lectures.{{cite web |url=http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/aboutus/History/the_building_in_history |title=Cumberland Lodge | History | the Building in History |access-date=25 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606032107/http://www.cumberlandlodge.ac.uk/aboutus/History/the_building_in_history |archive-date=6 June 2012 }}

The private Cranbourne Tower is easily viewed from surrounding paths. It is all that survives of Cranbourne Lodge, the residence of the Keeper of Cranbourne Chase. It is thought to date back to the 16th century.

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In the south-east of the park, near Englefield Green, are the Savill Garden Garden and Valley Gardens which were designed and built by Eric Savill in the 1930s and 1940s. They include an extraordinary range of flowers and trees from around the world. Smith's Lawn and Polo Grounds are also nearby, as is the tranquil Heather Garden. The Savill Garden Visitor Centre houses a gift shop; toilets; restaurant; coffee shop; ice cream counter; and a shop selling many plants found in the garden. The gardens are open to visitors between 10:00 and 16:30 in the winter and 10:00 and 18:00 in the summer.{{cite web|url=http://www.windsorgreatpark.co.uk/en/visit/opening-times-charges|title=Opening times and charges|publisher=The Crown Estate|access-date=16 April 2016}}

Virginia Water Lake, in the south of the park, is an artificially-created lake of around {{convert|1|km2|1|abbr=on}} dating from the 1740s. Among the lakeside features are the {{convert|100|ft|m|adj=mid|-high|order=flip}} high Canadian totem pole, carved by Mungo Martin, Henry Hunt, and Tony Hunt Sr., commemorating the centenary of British Columbia, and a collection of ornamental Roman ruins, transported from the site of Leptis Magna (modern-day Al-Khums) in 1816 and installed at Virginia Water in 1826.

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Beside a smaller lake, known as the Obelisk Pond, is the Obelisk memorial to the Duke of Cumberland. This is inscribed

{{cquote|This Obelisk raised by command of King George the Second commemorates the services of his son William Duke of Cumberland

The success of his arms and the gratitude of his father

This tablet was inscribed by His Majesty King William the Fourth.}}

It was originally inscribed "Culloden" but this was erased on Queen Victoria's orders and replaced with "Cumberland", inscribed within an inset in the masonry.{{cite book|title=Windsor Great Park: A Visitor's Guide|page=28|first=Andrew|last=Fielder|publisher=Copperhorse Publishing|date=1 May 2010|isbn=978-0-9564703-0-0}}

Due to the presence of ancient trees and ancient grasslands, Windsor Great Park is an important wildlife site in the UK, and is nationally important for its fungal diversity. 250 rare species have been found in the park, some of which are confined exclusively to the park and occur nowhere else. Windsor Great Park is regarded as an important bolete site by mycologists,{{Cite web | url=https://cdn.buglife.org.uk/2022/01/Windsor-Fungi-End-Report-2020.pdf | title=Final report on the Fungi of Great Windsor Park | website=cdn.buglife.org.uk}} and a few nationally rare species occur here, including Imperator rhodopurpureus, Rubroboletus legaliae and Butyriboletus fuscoroseus, although the latter of which has not been encountered for many years. Windsor Great Park is the only place in the UK where a confusing form of R. legaliae with entirely yellow pores occurs,{{Cite web | url=https://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/f5cae2d1-b304-4020-921c-1c95d507f9c8/SpeciesStatus-14-Boletaceae-WEB-2013.pdf | title=Red List of Fungi for Great Britain: Boletaceae | website=data.jncc.gov.uk | publisher=Joint Nature Conservation Committee}} and is the type locality for Boletus immutatus, as suggested by Ainsworth et al. a variable colour morph of Neoboletus luridiformis with metabolic abnormalities, which occurs exclusively at Windsor Great Park and nowhere else in the UK, and has not been recorded in Europe as well.{{Cite web |title=B. immutatus « boletales.com |url=https://boletales.com/genera/boletus/b-immutatus/ |access-date=2023-12-08 |website=boletales.com}} Collection of fungi for consumption has been long forbidden in the park to safeguard the population of rare fungi, with significant sanctions in place if this law is ignored, much like with Epping Forest.{{cite web | url=https://www.windsorgreatpark.co.uk/the-estate/environment/conservation-stewardship/wildlife/ | title=Wildlife | date=7 October 2022 }} Other fungi which have been reported from the park include Boletus aereus, Gyroporus castaneus and six species of tooth fungi such as Hericium coralloides, a species protected by law in the UK. It is currently considered for inclusion in the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) register due to the diversity of fungi.

The park has a healthy population of red kite, which can be seen soaring all over the park on sunny days, and seeing and hearing ring-necked parakeet is commonplace. Other birds recorded from the park include the nationally threatened lesser spotted woodpecker and mandarin duck.{{cite web | url=http://berksoc.org.uk/county-sites/windsor-great-park/ | title=Windsor Great Park }}

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A new visitor centre designed by Glenn Howells Architects and Buro Happold was opened in June 2006, and was nominated for the 2007 Stirling Prize.

Park access via Rangers Gate is strictly for authorised vehicles only. There are several other road, horse and foot entrances. Access to some of the private areas of the Great Park is available, on application, for an annual key rental fee. Access to the park is governed by Windsor Great Park Regulations 1973.Statutory Instrument 1973/1113

Every five or six years since 1993 Windsor Great Park has been home to the Scout and Girlguiding camp WINGS (Windsor International Guides and Scouts camp), last held in August 2014.{{cite web|url=http://wings2014.org.uk/ |title=Wings 2014 Homepage |website=Wings2014.org.uk |access-date=8 June 2017}}

At the 15th World Conference of WAGGGS it was decided to mark the centenary of the birth of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Guiding, by holding a World Camp with four locations — Doe Lake, Ontario, Canada; Quezon City, Philippines; Lac de Conche, Switzerland; and Windsor Great Park, from 19 January to 2 February 1957.{{cite web |last1=Gosling |first1=Mike |title=1957 World Camps |url=https://www.sigmah.com/pdfs/1957_world_camps.pdf |website=SIGMAH.com |access-date=28 August 2019}}

The Crown Estate has allowed the use of Windsor Great Park as a filming location. The park was used in the production of the following:

• Carry on Henry 1971 featured Windsor Great Park & The Long Walk
• Elton John's 1978 album A Single Man featured the park on the cover and inner booklet.
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part 1 and Part 2)
• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Robin Hood (2010)
• Snow White and the Huntsman
• Into the Woods (2014)
• The King's Speech made extensive use of Cumberland Lodge.
• King Arthur: Legend of the Sword was on location in the South Forest in early 2015
• The Huntsman: Winter's War used various locations during May and June 2015
• Bridget Jones's Baby was filming on location on Duke's Lane in October 2015
• Flowers from Channel 4 was filming in December 2015 in South Forest and Penslade Bottom, and Windsor Great Park
• Cinderella (2015)
• The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
• Virginia Water
• Countryfile"News from The Royal Landscape" booklet, Winter 2013, published by the Crown Estate.
• Midsomer Murders
• Scenes from the film Annihilation were shot in South Forest in April 2016{{Cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4923902|title = Geograph:: Construction of location set in Pond,... © Phillip Williams cc-by-sa/2.0}}
• The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle in June 2018

• Herne the Hunter
• List of Ancient Woods in England
• List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire
• The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
• Violet click beetle
• Windsor Free Festival

{{Reflist}}

• R. J. Elliott. The Story of Windsor Great Park. {{ISBN|0-85933-158-X}}
• Andrew Fielder, 2010, "Windsor Great Park, A Visitor's Guide", 144pages. {{ISBN|978-0-9564703-0-0}}
• Anderson Geographics Ltd. The Essential Maps of Windsor Great Park and Central Windsor & Eton. {{ISBN|978-0-9548428-2-6}}
• Charles Lyte. The Royal Gardens in Windsor Great Park. {{ISBN|0-85628-261-8}}

• {{Official website|http://www.windsorgreatpark.co.uk/en}}
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