Levens Park was originally a medieval deer park but was formally restructured as a recreational park around 1700 by Guillaume Beaumont with a great oak avenue, specimen trees and views of the river. 

Beaumont’s contrasting designs for the gardens and the park are particularly interesting to garden historians because they mark the change in fashion from a love of formality to an appreciation of nature in all its moods – something which the Lake District poet Wordsworth was also to explore.

Levens Park is home to a small herd of Norwegian black fallow deer and many Bagot Goats, a rare breed originally brought to this country at the time of Richard the Lion Heart.  The river Kent is tidal as far as Levens Bridge, bringing sea-trout and salmon in season.

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