Fallow Deer

Fallow Deer

The fallow deer park is fairly central on the estate, you can reach it easily from any of the three car parking areas. The small photo here shows some attractive spring colours on the deer park trees in May.

From the Leigh Woods entrance car park (the golf course). Go back on the roadway you came on in at the junction go left.

Follow the roadway deeper into the estate, after about 800m (½ mile) you reach Keepers Cottage with a good view of the mansion. The fenced deer park continues downward on the roads right side.

From the mansion car park on Kennel Lodge Road. Walk past the mansion continuing along Kennel Lodge Road deeper into the estate, when the road forks go right for about 400m. When you reach the fenced deer park you can go left along a track into the wooded Clarken Coombe or go up along the roadway towards Keepers Cottage.

There is at one unfenced foot path running through the fallow deer park in the wooded area of Clarken Coombe. Its great to get closer to the deer without fences but please READ AND FOLLOW any instructions on the gateways.

Fallow deer are usually much more timid than the far larger red deer and also can be in the woodland area of the deer park in Clarken Coombe. You stand the best chance of getting close at the quieter times near dawn and dusk.