The migration commenced immediately, but appears to have been gradual; for three seasons elapsed before all the members of the heronry had found their way over the Downs to their new quarters in the fir-woods of Parham.

This occurred about seventeen years ago [written c.

1848]." Sussex, says Mr.Borrer, author of _The Birds of Sussex_, has two other large heronries--at Windmill Hill Place, near Hailsham, and Brede, near Winchelsea--and some smaller ones, one being at Molecomb, above Goodwood.
Betsy's Oak in Parham Park is said to be so called because Queen Elizabeth sat beneath it.

But another and more probable legend calls it Bates's Oak, after Bates, an archer at Agincourt in the retinue of the Earl of Arundel (and in _Henry V._).

Good Queen Bess, however, dined in the hall of Parham House in 1592.