Weald Country Park
51°37′39″N 0°15′55″E / 51.62744°N 0.26539°E
Weald Country Park | |
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Brentwood, Essex | |
Area | 500 acres (200 ha; 0.78 sq mi; 2.0 km2) |
Operated by | Essex County Council |
Weald Country Park is a 700-year-old,
Weald manor, parts of which dated to the 16th century, was bought by
The park is now managed by Essex County Council.
Weald Hall
Weald Hall, with 800 acres (3.2 km2) in 1841, was let to farmers in the 19th century
A very large (2.8 by 4.8 metres) painting of Weald Hall hung in a dining room at nearby
2012 Olympic Games
The park was due to be the venue for the mountain biking events at the 2012 Summer Olympics. However, following a visit by inspectors from the Union Cycliste Internationale, the site was considered insufficiently challenging for international competition and a new venue was sought.[8] Hadleigh Country Park was chosen as the replacement venue.[9]
Iron Age Hill Fort
South Weald Camp was a hillfort based in South Weald, Brentwood, Essex, England. Roughly circular in plan, the fort covered 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres), with a suggested late Iron Age construction date in the period 1st-century BC to 1st-century AD. The location is associated in this period with the Catuvellauni and the Trinovantes.[10]
The camp's defences consisted of a rampart and steep banked slope, with traces of an external ditch. Although for a long time after the Iron Age, the Camp didn't have much use, in the medieval period the fort was used as part of a deer-park and then later used as a WWII training ground. Nowadays, a road (Sandpit Lane) runs roughly north-south through the fort dividing it somewhat unequally with roughly a third to the west (now known as Weald Country Park) and two-thirds to the east (owned by South Weald Cricket Club).
References
- Dissolution of the Monasteries(in this case, 1540).
- Domesday) denotes forest land; by 1777 there was apparently no woodland left apart from Weald Hall Coppice, which still survived in 1954. ('North Weald Bassett: Introduction', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred (1956), pp. 284-286Accessed: 25 September 2008
- ^ 'Parishes: South Weald', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8 (1983), pp. 74-90. Accessed 25 September 2008.
- ^ *Barnard, Toby (2004). "Smith, Erasmus". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Hugh Smith was an ancestor of the Earls of Derby.
- ^ Victoria County History, ibid.
- ^ Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, 3rd ed. 1995, s.v. "Adam, Robert"; some interior fittings were salvged by Crowther of Syon Lodge: a doorcase was installed in the restoration of Tryon Palace, New Bern, North Carolina (John Harris, Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages (Yale University Press) 2007, Appendix 3.
- ^ Mountain bike course 'too easy', BBC Sport, Friday, 1 February 2008
- ^ BBC. (2008-06-06). Look East: Biking back on the agenda. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
- ISBN 978-1-78969-227-3.