More information : In 1658 a new wall was built around the "Little Park" adjoining
Brougham Castle (1a). The wall of the park, repaired by Lady Anne
Clifford (in residence at Brougham 1653-76), abutted the castle wall
at one end and was joined to the 17th C garden (NY 52 NW 86) at the
other (1b).
(Centred at NY 536 288). The large field of about 15 hectares within
which the castle and the Roman fort lie is bounded on the east, south
and west sides by a fairly modern dry-stone wall, and in the north by
the River Eamont. Beneath this wall from the vicinity of Castle Farm
garden (also the south-east corner of Lady Anne's garden), an earlier
boundary, visible either as a turf-covered bank, up to 1.2m above an
inner ditch or reduced to a single scarp, extends around the east,
south and west sides of the field. At the north-west corner, the bank
turns eastwards towards the castle terminating on the Tower of
League, situated at the south-west angle of the curtain wall. The
area thus enclosed is almost certainly "Little Park", though this
name is no longer known; it measures about 9 hectares, and includes
the 17th C garden, the Roman fort, and to the west of the fort an
extensive area of broad ridge-and-furrow; the west and south ditches
of the fort may have been landscaped to make ornamental water
features within the park. The area was perambulated in the course of
the RCHME: Brougham Castle Field Observation in November 1995.
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