1892] LOXLEY. 187 



"Dubridgc" is the old spelling of Doveridge. Dove 

 is the old British word " Dwfr," which means water. 



The principal coverts at Loxley are Carry Coppice, the 

 Alder Car, and the Park Covert, though the plantation 

 by the railway also often holds a fox. In Mi*. Meynell 

 Ingram's diary in the early part of the last century the 

 first-named place is called Carwich Coppice. 



Sport was pretty good in October, and on the 6th 

 hounds ran well for forty minutes from the Back Cuttings 

 across Sinfin Moor, through Hell Meadows, to ground at 

 Burnaston. Again, on the 13th, they had as hard a day's 

 cub-hunting as any one could wish for. Finding in Hand- 

 leasow Wood at Chartley a nice litter of cubs, they ran 

 back and forth between that covert and Gratwich Wood 

 till they lost them all. Then they killed one in the gorse. 

 Found another there and ran to Carry Coppice. Thence a 

 little way out and back again. They went away again for 

 Field, pointed for Leigh, bent back left-handed into Birch- 

 wood Park, then through Mr. Philips' two small coverts, 

 almost to Sherratt's Wood ; then on as if for Milwich, 

 where an attempt was made to stop the hounds, but they 

 ran on into Birch wood again, and by the time they 

 were stopped, all the horses were tired. Mr. Fort, who 

 had been alone with them part of the time, rode that stout 

 horse Silver King nearly to a standstill. 



All through November sport continued equally good. 

 On the first of that month, when nearly every one had 

 gone home, hounds found in Woodford Rough, ran straight 

 to Woodroffe's Cliff, all along the Banks almost to Butter- 

 milk Hill, out by the corner of Frame Bank, across Bagot's 

 Park, to the Lawn, through Lord's Coppice, and out as if 

 for Abbots Bromley. But here the fox turned short back 

 as if for Bromley Park, and was viewed. Then, unluckily, 

 some hounds started to run heel, and Charles had to stop 

 the others, so a very good hunt came to a poor finish. 



On November 5 th they had a very good hour and 

 thirty-five minutes from Needwood, and killed their fox 

 in a pit-hole on Agardsley Park farm. 



