2 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



being, we believe, the Eollwright Eoad and the South 

 Newington Brook. 



Turning northwards, we have the Banbury and Coventry 

 Koad as a guide as far as the Watergall on the east side 

 beyond Fenny Compton Wharf. Skirting the Worm- 

 leighton, Priors Hardwick and Priors Marston parish 

 boundaries, where the canal is for some distance the outside 

 line, we take the course of the Braunston Brook, and 

 circling Shuckburgh Hill and Flecknoe, we continue, 

 leaving Braunston just on the right, till we meet the 

 Leam at Grandborongh. 



Turning westward, we follow the line of the Leam as far 

 as Leamington, and from there taking in Warwick Castle 

 and Park, and passing still westwards by Norton Lindsey, 

 Wolverton, and Little Alne, we reach the most western 

 extremity beyond Coughton Park. Tnrning southwards 

 along the Ridge Way, once described by Greorge IV. as 

 " the finest drive in England," and taking in Eagley Park 

 and Weethley Wood, we arrive at Salford Priors. From 

 thence we take a line across the Evesham Yale to Honey- 

 bourne, where the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 

 Railway bonnds the neutral country as far as Moreton- 

 in-the-Marsh. The measurements between the extreme 

 points are from the north-east at Grandborongh to the 

 Four-shire Stone on the south-west, thirty miles ; and from 

 Weethley Wood on the north-west to Cropredy at the 

 south-west, nearly the same distance. 



We shall see later on that the projected railway from 

 Rugby to Worcester, so vehemently opposed by the late 

 Sir Hugh Williams when they proposed to destroy Ladbroke 

 Gorse, never was carried out, and till the East and West 

 Junction Railway was made no iron horse traversed the 

 country except that one which ran on the rails of the 

 Great Western. Alas ! wdiile we write we learn that the 

 Braunston and Grandborongh Vales are now cnt up by the 

 extension of the L. and N.W.R. from Daventry to Leaming- 

 ton, and yet another line is projected and being engineered 

 — the Manchester, Sheffield, and Derby and London — 



