This is surmise rather than something based on firm archival evidence, but I would guess that this is the site of a village cleared away to make room for the country house: various lanes bend to avoid the park, whilst public footpaths continue their lines across the park as hollow-ways and converge on a point just south of the church.
Uploaded to Geograph by Christopher Hilton on 13 August 2013
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