recently made a short circuit from the Norbury Park car park above West Humble, through a beech wood (metalled path) then descended hillside into ancient yew region and returned to where i started out from along the narrow trail, to where it branched off, up back towards the car park. the rest of the park is a mystery to me: does anybody know anything about the local history here please?
thanks
Ric

"Norbury Park House is now privately owned but the majority of the Estate is managed by the Surrey Wildlife
Trust and is criss-crossed by public rights of way. There is a ‘Druids Grove’ of yew trees in the park, which was mentioned in the Domesday Book, and the Estate provided the inspiration for the novel ‘Camilla’ by Fanny Burney. "

The above is quoted from a Ranmore Walk directions.pdf which can be found here:
http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/sccwebsite/sccwspages.nsf/LookupWebPagesByTITLE_RTF/Ranmore?opendocument

I did a little walk around there which can be viewed here:
http://forum.surrey-online.co.uk/board/walks/topic/233/action/view_topic/ranmore-common-walk

Maybe the Ancient Yew region was 'Druids Groove'? and who knows what went on here!