Beyond the Gardens: More of the Herstmonceux Castle Estate

A few days ago I went out past the gardens and walked around a small part of the 600-acre castle estate with a few other students. It's a combination of woodlands and fields, for the most part. On the map of the grounds we received, there were 2 clearly labeled woodland trails, so we had started off intending to follow one of those- but there are way more than 2 trails around the estate, and it wasn't very clear which were the main ones. We didn't go very far at all without encountering a good half-dozen intersections with other pathways, so we just walked for about an hour in a big loop that didn't go very far from the castle, relatively speaking.

English countryside!

We also spotted the elusive peacocks:

See the house in this picture?

It's actually not a house! It's called a "folly", and it's really just one wall made to look like a house. When you go through the door, you're outside again on a path into the forest.

lily pond in the forest

I also took a few more shots of the castle itself:

 And lastly, here's the UBC flag in the dining hall! They have a flag for each university
represented here. If I remember correctly, we've been told that there are students here
from 14 different universities and 12 different nationalities. [Edited later to answer
a question from a comment on this post: so far I haven't found anyone else from UBC.
I'm definitely the only upper-year student from there, but there could be some first-years from UBC that I haven't met yet.]