The Bedale Hounds, 1832-1908 



crow can fly for seven miles to Hackfall. 

 Ran through here out at the north end, crossed 

 the river Yore, down Maudlin Banks to Tan- 

 field Hall, to the west of Heslett's Wood 

 nearly up to the village of Binsoe. Here 

 the fox was headed, and turned short back 

 by Aldburgh Hall across to Upbank Wood, 

 where hounds ran very hard (and I viewed 

 h;m). He broke away two fields towards 

 Gibdykes, but hounds running from scent 

 to view killed him in a ploughed field after 

 one of the most brilliant runs that I have 

 witnessed for some years in any country ; 

 and hounds behaved to admiration. Sir 

 Bellingham Graham and Mr. Morley rode 

 very conspicuously and well for two hours 

 and forty minutes, but we continued to run 

 brilliantly for another fifty-five minutes after- 

 wards, making in the whole a chase of three 

 hours and thirty-five minutes, at the end 

 of which my good friend Godfrey Wentworth 

 was present, and equally rejoiced as myself.'* 



During the period that he hunted the 

 Badsworth Country, Lord DarHngton estab- 

 Hshed a ' ' Hunt Club ' ' at Ferrybridge near 

 Pontefract, which was close to the residence 

 he rented, Belham House. The reason he 

 did so being : ' ' That he was of opinion it 

 was desirable that sportsmen should meet 

 together pretty often to discuss their sport, 

 the preservation of foxes, the making of new 

 coverts, and anything likely to improve the 

 country from a fox hunting point of view." 



In the year 1808, he established another 



