64 The Bedale Hounds, 1832-1908 



The points of two or three good runs are 

 here given, but I am unable to furnish much 

 detail. 



Found in a plantation near Winston 

 Bridge, and running by Barningham, killed 

 on Hallgate Moor. 



Found near Middleham, and ran to Rich- 

 mond. Found at Spennithorn Whin, and 

 killed at Easby. 



On the 25th January there was a very 

 quick gallop into the Hurworth country. 



Met at Skipton Bridge, but nothing was 

 done until Mr. BelFs Whin, near Thirsk rail- 

 way station, was reached. From here a fox 

 broke away at once on the west side, and ran 

 by Abel Grange, skirting the Wood End 

 coverts, across the Park there, over the 

 Thirsk and Northallerton Road to Purgatory 

 Whin. Hounds pushed him on from here 

 with no sign of a check ; over the Cod Beck 

 Ings, straight to Cotcliffe Wood ; leaving 

 the village of Borrowby on the right. He 

 tried to reach the open country on the top of 

 the hill above the wood, but the pace had 

 been too severe, and his strength failing him, 

 turned down the hill again and made for the 

 ''main earths,'' but two hundred yards before 

 he could reach them, hounds ran into him. 



This is a good six mile point, and the time 

 recorded for the distance run is thirty minutes. 

 Hounds must have raced ! 



Mr. Buncombe must, at this time, have 

 thought of giving up the hounds, as the 

 account from which the above is an extract. 



