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.

Access from Kennel Lodge Road, Ashton Road or the A369 Leigh Woods.

From the Leigh Woods entrance car park. Walk down the road after about 400m you reach Keepers Cottage. The fenced deer park continues downward on the roads right.

From the mansion car parks on Kennel Lodge Road car parks. 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 least one open foot path running through the fallow deer park in the wooded area of Clarken Coombe. Great to get closer to the deer without fences but please READ AND FOLLOW the 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.