Park pale
The HS2 London-West Midlands Environmental Statement, Glossary of terms and list of abbreviations, DETR 2013, defines a park pale as: '...an historic form of palisade used to enclose deer within a defined area.'
High Speed Rail (Crewe – Manchester) Environmental Statement, Glossary, abbreviations and references, published by the Department for Transport in 2022, defines a park pale as: ‘An historic palisade used to enclose deer within a defined area.’
A palisade is a fence or wall made from wooden stakes or tree trunks, sometimes referred to as ‘paling’ or a stakewall.
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