It was established in 1973 to include several herds or populations of colour-pointed white cattle – white-coated, with points of either red or black on the ears and feet.

[14] In 1225, as a result of legislation passed by Henry III, several parks were enclosed and several herds, including those at Chartley and Chillingham in England, and Cadzow in Scotland, were "emparked".

Registration of White Park Cattle ceased during the Second World War, and recommenced after the formation of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in 1973.

Some of their Canadian-born offspring were transferred to the Bronx Zoo, and later moved to the King Ranch in Texas, where they remained for nearly forty years.

A programme of linear assessment, including 200 bulls and 300 cows, has been carried out in the UK since 1994 to define its size and conformation.

In their native environment in Britain, White Park cattle are known for their distinctive appearance and their grazing preference for coarse terrain.

Beef became the main product during the twentieth century, and gained a reputation as a textured meat, with excellent flavour and marbling, which commanded a significant premium in speciality markets.

The white park, a breed I’ve never eaten before and had always assumed was purely ornamental, was really excellent: softly chewy, with that strong, distinctive, almost corrupt flavour of proper beefStudies of blood type polymorphisms have found the White Park to be fairly distant from other British cattle breeds, and closest to the Scottish Highland.

[17]: 280 [18] The colour-pointed coat pattern also appears in other cattle breeds such as the Irish Moiled, the Blanco Orejinegro [es], the Berrenda, the Nguni and the Texas Longhorn.