Windsor Great Park

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Windsor Great Park

Laid out on unproductive heath land – sand covered with heather and fern and studded with peat bottomed meres. The worst land in Surrey. Although the undeveloped area shrunk in medieval times and the park is what remained. Reclamation of land like this for farming is very difficult.  A developing district after the Conquest.  Originally a tract 9 miles wide and stretching over 17 parishes in Surrey and Berkshire. Largely heathland on Bagshot sands and therefore sterile and difficult for farming. In the 13^ththe Crown allowed the Constable of Windsor to enclose old sheep walks for cultivation.

Canadian Indian Totem Pole. One of the strangest sights in Surrey, a presented to the Queen by the province of British Columbia to commemorate the province's centenary in 1958. Carved from a single trunk of Western Red Cedar, it is 100 feet tall, a foot for each year of the province's history, and weighs 12 tons. The figures represent legendary ancestors of Pacific Coast Indian tribes