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the meet of Ledwell Village may be taken as intended 

 for the same coverts in reverse order. Barton Gates 

 has the coverts of Barton, with Rousham Spinnies and 

 Tackley Heath and Wood, to follow. 



The Wednesday fixtures held in Gloucestershire 

 mostly point, on the other hand, to stiff grass vale. 

 They are Bruern Abbey, where there are large coverts ; 

 Gawcombe, with two fine woods facing a beautiful valley 

 which stretches right up to the Kennels at Chipping 

 Norton ; or they profier another equally good line, if 

 a fox crosses back over the brow and dips down for 

 Slaughter or Bourton-on-the-Water. Indeed, the 

 Slaughter Vale is, perhaps, the most favourite strip 

 of the whole of the Heythrop country. From Addles- 

 trop, with Oddington Ashes, you are also likely to find 

 yourself in the Gawcombe Vale. Bradwell Grove is 

 regularly advertised for the first Wednesday in each 

 month. There is a large covert near the house, with 

 Jolley's Gorse afterwards : and here you get on to the 

 stone wall country, and may not see a hedge all day. 

 From Burford you have Windrush Gorse, to be 

 followed by Jolley^s Gorse and Westwell Gorse. These 

 last two meets are quite for a wold country — where 

 the coverts are small, the walls all rideable, and the 

 pace often tremendous. Tar Wood, in the corner 

 below the railway at South Leigh is held in alternate 

 months by the Heythrop and the Old Berkshire : and 

 is always hunted by the former on a Wednesday. It 

 is a deep wood, with heavy going on both sides. 



Most of the Fridays are also spent on the wolds — 

 the meets rangiug up the west of the Heythrop king- 

 dom, and the country partaking much of the char- 



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