I WAS driving to Haxby along the back road which leaves the A19 at the Shipton church of Saint John The Evangelist on May 14 last year.

I recall the date because my uncle died on May 13, Ascension Day.

As I drove close to the turning to the Jacobean Hotel and near Brown's Nurseries, I saw what appeared to be a roe deer leaping across the road.

Can any reader enlighten me as to the likely habitat of this creature? I have not seen one in this vicinity again.

Is there a herd or was it a stray wild deer perhaps living in the local woods?

Mrs Judith Mary Haw-Smalley,

Springwell House,

Shipton-by-Beningbrough,

York.