[3] Parkside was a separate estate believed to border Mersley Park.
[1] A Henry VIII letter, dated 2 August 1536, specifically mentioned the park: Hugh David, a yeoman of the guard.
To be keeper of Mersley Park in the lordship of Bromefyld, marches of Wales, formerly occupied by William Almer, and afterwards by Wm.
a day and the herbage, &c. Also farm of a tenement near the pale, formerly used as a lodge of the said park lately in the tenure of the said William Brereton and now in the King's gift.
Westm., same day[5]The Tewderleyes Survey, made in the time of Henry VIII, also mentioned the park: Marsley Parke in ye ffranchise of ye Holt, within one mile of ye Castle there, was then a faire Parke, being three miles about the same, being paled round with pales, w'h was more in Lawnes and plaines than Couert, the midst of ye said Paike being covered with Oakes and small Tymber, without any other Couert.