Chepstow Park Wood is a deer park that belonged to Chepstow Castle and was developed in the medieval and Jacobean periods.

In the medieval period it was a simple deer park bounded by a wooden fence and in the 1630s it was walled and probably used for deer coursing.  If this is the case, this is the only known deer course in Wales and one of only a handful in Britain.

A full description of the historical site can be found at the Coflein website.  Here is a link to the article: http://orapweb.rcahms.gov.uk/coflein/C/CPG370.pdf

Thanks to Jeremy Horton for submitting this information.   Jeremy has also cleared the vegetation from around the vaulted spring (pictured below) at the site of the moated deer park lodge near the centre of the woods.