Richmond Park
Vast royal deer park of ancient oaks, open grassland and free-roaming red and fallow herds.
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This guide to Richmond Park in London follows a 1755 dispute at one of its gates, when a keeper turned away a brewer named John Lewis for arriving on foot without a carriage. It traces the park's shift from open common ground under Charles I to the locked domain Princess Amelia made of it a century later, handing keys only to her friends, and the fight Lewis mounted over a right his neighbours had quietly lost. Look for the gate itself on your walk, and picture a stubborn brewer refusing to turn back.
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