THE YORK AND A INST Y COUNTRY. 9 



and there is a good line in every direction. It is on the 

 North Slceugh farm, and was planted during the master- 

 ship of Mr. H. D. Brocklehurst, after whom it is 

 sometimes named Brocklehurst's Whin, and was re-planted 

 about 1S90. The country about Aldwark and Alne is a very 

 sporting one, and one, moreover, which takes some crossing. 

 The principal coverts are Alne Forest, Aldwark Wood, 

 Harbour Plantation, and the coverts about Linton. Myton 

 is on the edge of the Bedale country, the river Swale being 

 the boundary, but it is not often that it is crossed. Farther 

 north, however, the York and Ainsty frequently cross into 

 the Bedale country. Strensall soon gets hounds into Lord 

 Middleton's country. There are some good coverts in the 

 neighbourhood, notably the Oak Wood, Lilling Green and 

 Suet Carr, the latter a rough open common, which 

 generally provides an enterprising fox. Skelton Spring, 

 the Moorlands Coverts, Court House Wood, Overton 

 Wood, and Coldstream Gorse are good coverts, which can 

 be drawn from either Skelton or Beningbrough. From 

 Blue Bridsfe there are the New Parks Coverts and 

 Dodholme Wood, part of the ancient forest of Galtres, of 

 which, however, there is now no trace save the old hunting 

 box which James L was wont to occupy during his 

 hunting expeditions in the forest, and which is now a farm- 

 house. There are a few good coverts about Sutton, but 

 generally when hounds meet there, they get to Suet Carr 

 before the day is over, 



The Tuesday country is on the Ainsty side, and is 

 that part of the country which was at one time hunted by 

 the Bramham Moor, and was given up to the York and 

 Ainsty, conditionally, by Mr. James Lane Fox. It is a 

 long and rather narrow strip, laying between the Nidd on 

 the north, the Wharfe on the south, and the Ouse on the 

 east. South-westerly from Bilbrough the Tadcaster road 



