Whitcliff Deer Park (also known as Whitley Park, Whitecliffe Park)

The park lies on a ridge of land between the River Severn and the Cotswold escarpment. It is largely rough grazing though there is a line of ancient oaks. Another line of trees was planted in the 19th century; copses and scot firs.

It is surrounded by a brick wall 2 metres high. There are locked pedestrian gates into the park. These pedestrian gates have a bar over them at 2.2 metres in case the deer are tempted to jump over the gates as they are not 2 metres high. However the public have to climb up steps to a platform a metre high to gain access to the park from the public footpath.

Some stretches of the wall have been replaced with a fence of a similar height as the wall and supported on brick pillars on the line of the wall. This may well be because the wall blew down.

There are hatches intermittently at the base of the wall. They open into the park. Being over a metre in width but only a half a metre high it is possible that they are for hounds to pursue their prey whilst containing the deer.

Across the Little Avon river from Berkeley Castle are the kennels. The hounds can be exercised in the deer park by taking them out a private lane behind Ham and across a public road to enter the deer park adjacent to the listed lodge.

Deer cotes were situated adjacent to Park Farm ST67859570 and near Bevington ST66169653.

A moated site below the hill probably held a hunting lodge. It was superseded by another built at an altitude of 41 metres just below the summit of the hill. A later replacement created the banqueting house Park House in full visibility of Berkeley Castle. It would have provided an excellent vantage point to view a chase. The Berkeley estate no longer owns Park House.