By the time of Henry VIII many of the forestlands of Somersham had been cleared to form a deer park, still with a view to hunting but with fewer obstacles for the deer to hide behind! In place of the foresters of yore, the Bishop appointed a Park keeper specifically to manage the supply of venison. The Bishop's scribe seems to have had a bit of a problem with geography and slipped the town out of Huntingdonshire into our neighbouring county!