He was on a hunting party and one of his companions, Sir Walter Tyrrell, fired an arrow which glanced off an oak tree and hit the King in the chest, killing him instantly. 

But mystery and intrigue has always surrounded Rufus' death - was it an accident or was it murder?  Or did it happen here or somewhere else in the forest entirely?

Explore the woods around Canterton which have changed little since Rufus' day - through Piper's Copse and Lower Canterton passing the site of an old hunting lodge; or across Castle Malwood Walk.