io8 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



Enclosed I send you a plan of country I once 

 fancied might be of use ; probably it never will be. 

 It has only the merit of showing at one view the 

 country of which it professes to give particulars. 

 Yours in haste, very sincerely, 



Henry Hippisley. 

 Lambourne Place, 



Wednesday morning, 26th Sept., 1832. 



The " plan " is a very neatly drawn and 

 detailed map of the country contained within 

 the following limits. All the coverts and 

 natural features of the country are marked, 

 and a great deal of pains must have been 

 expended on it. 



Extreme boundaries ... Burford to Oxford, 17 miles. 



North and South ... Oxford to Highclere, 35 miles. 



East and West ... Highclere to Marlboro', 17 miles. 



West and North ... Marlboro' to Burford, 30 miles. 



The plan contains the present " Craven " 

 country as well as the Old Berks, and was 

 therefore probably drawn out about 1827, when 

 the "orreat" Mr. Warde had sold his hounds 

 to Mr. Horlock and the pack had gone into 

 Wilts. 



A very carefully compiled schedule of all 

 the coverts in the double country is appended. 

 The plan is only of interest as showing " what 

 might have been." It is now in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Morland of Abingdon. 



The meeting was attended by all the chief 



