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Windsor Great Park
covers 4,800 acres, parts of which are open to the public. Its
present area was determined in the 1360s and was popular with
Saxon kings as a hunting forest. The park is shrouded in mystery
and legend and for over 1,000 years the story of Herne the Hunter
has been told. His ghost still appears wearing the antlers of
a stag, riding a phantom black stallion at the head of a pack
of black hounds. He appears to warn of times of trouble and gallops
through Windsor Great Park only to disappear into thin air. The
park today is the perfect place for picnics, walking, cycling
and horse riding.
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