 In 1669 Frederik III decided that the wood of "Boveskov" ("Beech wood") should be fenced in and wild deer from the surrounding areas driven into the newly created park.Boveskov was already well known as the former property of Valdemar the Victorious as it had been recorded in his census (the "Liber Census Daniæ") of 1231.The forest lay in the westerly and southerly part of the present Dyrehaven and encompassed land used by the farmers from the village of Stokkerup, which lay to the north.