For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know, the Deer Park is not a contiguous element of the Safari Park. It holds Red, Fallow, Axis, Rusa, and Manchurian Sika Deer, plus Barasingha, Reeves' Muntjac and Chinese Water Deer. It is, however, chiefly famous as the last refuge of Pere David's Deer, saved from extinction by the exertions of the 11th Duke of Bedford a century ago.
I actually prefer the Deer Park to the Safari Park...
The Barasingha are nowadays kept seperately in the small 'mini-park' surrounding the Paris House restaurant in the very South East corner of the Estate. I think they put them in there some years ago to try and save them dying out- they were down to a handful at one stage- nowadays there's a good 50-70 in there. You can drive in off the main road through the big stone archway, as if going to the restaurant, if you want to see them.
