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Deer shelter in Auckland Castle deer park is a stone structure located within the historic deer park associated with Auckland Castle near Bishop Auckland in County Durham. The shelter dates from the eighteenth century and was constructed to provide protection for the deer maintained within the park, reflecting the aristocratic management of deer as both a resource and status symbol in the designed landscape of a great estate. Built of stone in a utilitarian style appropriate to its function, the structure represents the practical infrastructure that supported the ornamental and hunting traditions of the castle's noble occupants. The deer park itself, with its associated buildings, forms part of the wider complex of Auckland Castle, a residence of considerable historical importance to the Prince Bishops of Durham.
Deer shelter in Auckland Castle deer park is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011641. View the official record →
Deer shelter in Auckland Castle deer park is a stone structure located within the historic deer park associated with Auckland Castle near Bishop Auckland in County Durham. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011641.
Deer shelter in Auckland Castle deer park is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1011641.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Binchester Roman fort (Vinovia) (1.1 km), Stockton & Darlington Railway: lower section of the southern Etherley Incline (4.8 km), Stockton & Darlington Railway: Etherley Inclines, summit and upper sections (4.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Deer shelter in Auckland Castle deer park's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Deer shelter in Auckland Castle deer park stands on Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.