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    BBC Countryfile Magazine

    HERNE: THE HIDDEN HERO

    Mar 11, 2021 4 minutes

    It’s late dusk, and you’re lost. Shapes are moving in the mist ahead, holding your gaze. A hunting horn echoes through the trees; there’s the jangle of a harness, the baying of hounds, the thud of hooves on turf. A terrible figure, with antlers emerging from his forehead, is leading the ghostly group across your path. He knows exactly where he’s going.

    The ancient oak and beech trees at Windsor Great Park, on the Berkshire/Surrey border, have witnessed many human lives come and go: William the Conqueror, who decreed strict forest laws next to his new castle almost 1,000 years ago; Henry VIII and James I, who prized the deer for good hunting in the 16th and 17th centuries, and of course countless commoners, who have always travelled here

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