Hunting Centres 



Market Harborough, Mr. Fernie's, Pytchley, and 

 Woodland Pytchley ; Stamford, Cottesmore, and 

 Fitzwilliam ; Leicester, Atherstone, Mr. Fernie's, 

 and Quorn ; Oakham, as fashionable as Melton, 

 the Cottesmore, and Quorn ; then the other towns 

 (understudies, as it were, of Melton), Rugby very 

 convenient to the Atherstone, Pytchley, Warwick- 

 shire, and North Warwickshire ; York ; Bramham 

 Moor, Holderness, Lord Middleton's, York, and 

 Anisty. He must be hard to please whom one 

 of these does not satisfy ; or, say, Cheltenham ; 

 Berkeley, Cotswold, North Cotswold, Croome, 

 and Ledbury. Kettering ; Pytchley, and Pytchley 

 Woodland. Leamington, Warwickshire and North 

 Warwickshire; Aylesbury; the O.B.H. (west); 

 South Oxfordshire, Whaddon Chase, and Lord 

 Rothschild's staghounds. Harrogate ; Bramham 

 Moor, York, and Anisty ; and of sea-side resorts, 

 Scarborough ; Goathland, Sir Everard Cayley's, 

 Lord Middleton's, and Stainton Dale. Eastbourne 

 has two packs — South Down and East Sussex ; 

 Bideford one — Hon. Mark Rolle's. Then I pass 

 on to such centres on the G.W.R., not so far from 

 Paddington, as Swindon, the Duke of Beaufort's, 

 Craven, V.W.H. (Cricklade) ; V.W.H. (Cirencester) ; 

 and Cirencester ; Duke of Beaufort's, Cotswold, 

 and V.W.H. (Cirencester), and V.W.H. (Crick- 

 lade) ; other convenient country centres are, 

 Chelmsford; four Essex packs; Banbury; Bicester, 



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