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hereabouts many of the hunting folk are located. 

 Nantwich, Northwich, Malpas, and Crewe are also 

 central for many of the best meets, and in the southern 

 and western parts of the hunt it is an easy matter to 

 find places from which not only the Cheshire, but Sir 

 Watkin Wynn's, the North Staffordshire, and the 

 North Shropshire are within reach. 



Thus from Whitchurch (in Sir Watkin Wynn's 

 Hunt), the Cheshire, Shropshire, and North Stafford- 

 shire are all available, while from Crewe (in the 

 Cheshire Hunt) the North Staffordshire can be reached 

 at least two days in the week. Wrexham is another 

 good centre for Sir Watkin Wynn's hounds, and 

 Shrewsbury is central for the South Shropshire. From 

 Stafford both the North and South Staffordshire and 

 the Albrighton are within reach ; from Bridgnorth the 

 Albrighton and Wheatland ; from Much Wenlock both 

 the Shropshire packs and the Wheatland ; from Church 

 Stretton the United, South Shropshire, and Wheat- 

 land ; and from Tenbury the Ludlow, Radnorshire, and 

 West Hereford, Teme Valley and United. Indeed, 

 Shropshire and Staffordshire (apart from the Black 

 Country) are fine hunting countries, well supplied with 

 foxhound packs, and affording a great deal of sport. 

 But south of Whitchurch there are, perhaps, not so 

 many strangers hunting as there are in the Midlands, 

 on the eastern side of England, or in the neighbour- 

 hood of the watering-places, and in neither county are 

 any of the fields anything like so large as those which 

 are to be found regularly with the Cheshire hounds. 



