NIMROD" AND THE WILKINSONS. 



OLLOWING up his Northern Tour in 1827, 

 "Nimrod" paid a visit to the Hurworth and 

 wrote an account of his experiences and impres- 

 sions in the Sporting Magazine of that year as 

 follows : 



" On Friday Mr, Flounders accompanied me 

 to Croft Bridge to meet the Hurworth Hounds, 

 which place was about eight miles from Yarm. Our road to 

 Croft also led us through the village of Hurworth, within a 



A corner of Hurworth Village. 



From a sketch by Mr. G. A. Fothergill. 



short distance of the Hurworth kennel, and we overtook the 

 hounds going to covert. They were accompanied by Mr. 

 Wilkinson and his whipper-in, and Mr. Flounders took this 

 opportunity of introducing me to Mr. Wilkinson. I found him 

 very much what I expected to find him; a well-fed Englishman,, 



* Initial letter Mr. W. Forbes, ex-Hurworth M.F.H. 



