 Beckley and Horton remained with the Bertie family until 1919, when Viscount Bertie, younger brother of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon, broke up the estate and sold it in small lots.Bernard of St. Valery had a deer park at Beckley, the earliest known record of which dates from 1175 or 76.His son Thomas had it enclosed with a stone wall, built between 1192 and 97.