Sepia-tinted postcard showing a view of the lake in Vinters Valley Park, Maidstone. Ink: [personal message] [address in Ascot supplied]. Vinters Valley Park (also Vinters Valley Nature Reserve) is a remnant of an 18th-century landscape park, which, as the card indicates, was available for the local community as a park at the beginning of the 10th century. The house Vinters was burned down in the 1950s, and a housing estate built on the site, leaving the valley portion as a nature reserve