Red deer red deer was the most prestigious quarry, especially the mature stag, which in England was called a hart. Red deer are held in captivity for a variety of reasons. The meat of the deer, called venison, was until recently restricted in the United Kingdom to those with connections to the aristocratic or poaching communities, and a licence was needed to sell it legally, but it is now widely available in supermarkets, especially in the autumn. The Queen still follows the custom of offering large pieces of venison to members of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom and others. Some estates
Deer forest deer can move freely across large tracts of hill country. Boundaries, referred to as "marches", are usually marked by a river, stream, ridge, shoreline or similar natural feature. "Hind forests" and "stag forests" are so called because of the tendencies of red deer to form large, single-sex herds outside the autumn rutting time, and most forests hold either a resident stag herd or a hind herd for much of the year. In "deer forest", the term "forest" is derived from the ancient and medieval use of the Latin word "foris" - "open" or "waste", to denote an extensive outdoor "waste