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grasSj we have Had bourn as tlie meet nearest to the 

 borough, also as the best known of all the Meynell 

 fixtures, and as usually advertised for the first Thurs- 

 day in each month. Radbourn Roughs, a stronghold 

 of wood and osiers and reeds, is its covert. Sutton 

 Mill, and Etwell, point to Sutton Gorse, Parson's 

 Gorse, and Hilton's Gorse. The last-named is really a 

 gorse, and a good one. Sutton Gorse, like many other 

 of the coverts of the Meynell, has no longer any 

 title as a gorse, but remains an excellent covert in 

 the form of blackthorn. And these two stand out 

 as two of the most celebrated holding-places of the 

 Derbyshire country. Kedlaston (the seat of Lord 

 Scarsdale, and three miles from Derby) has small 

 coverts round the place, with Langley Gorse and 

 Broward's Carr, of more substantial size and power, in 

 the neighbourhood. At Egginton is Egginton Gorse, 

 and some way to the east is Arleston Gorse. One of 

 the farthest meets from Kennels is Stenson Lock, with 

 Stenson Field Covert. But farther still is Elvaston 

 Castle (Lord Harrington's) towards the junction of the 

 Derwent and the Trent — a great lawn meet, from 

 which hounds are taken to draw the cypress gardens. 

 Even to this remote corner the grass stretches as 

 sound and fair riding as ever. At Longford (Hon. E. 

 Coke's) we get to about the centre of the Derbyshire 

 country, and may see hounds there on a Tuesday 

 almost as often as on a Thursday. Longford Carr is a 

 capital covert, and there are other small ones also at 

 hand. 



The Tuesday country of the Meynell differs in no 

 respect from that of the Thursday — small grass fields, 



