110 The Hunting Countries of England, 



Wednesday, and Saturday : and Mr. Gosling adds a 

 frequent bye day — indeed, after Cliristmas, Friday is 

 almost always included in the programme of tlie 

 week. 



Monday is taken up essentially witli tlie home 

 country ; and its limits may be said to be marked 

 (though not imperatively) — on the west by the road 

 leading from Ware to Barkway, on the east by the 

 old London-and- Cambridge turnpike road, which runs 

 almost alongside the railway. 



Some of the chief Monday draws (and all very 

 sure finds) are Maddams, Hadham Park coverts, 

 Patmore Hall, Hormead Park, Turks, and The 

 Hammels. Maunden Mill or Thorley Wash will be 

 the meet for Maddams ; The Angel Inn, Little 

 Hadham, or Patmore Heath for Hadham Park; 

 Barkway or the Pelhams for Hormead, and often 

 Standon for The Hammels (which coverts, again, 

 consisting of park plantations and copses, are not 

 unf requently drawn on a Saturday) . All this Monday 

 country is of a very cramped character ; and to creep 

 your fences slowly must be the order of your going, 

 if you would cross it at all successfully. And the 

 Hadham district especially merits the description. 



On Wednesdays they move over to the east of this 

 London-and- Cambridge road for their Widdington 

 country and the neutral Forest; or else work the 

 extreme north of their territory, above a line drawn 

 from, say, Barkway to Saffron Walden. In the 

 former district they meet at Debden Cross, Peverelle 

 and Widdington, for Rowney and Widdington Woods, 

 two fine coverts bordering on the Thaxted country 



