206 Hunting Countries of England 



acter of the Cotswolds adjoining. Cheltenham is 

 generally well represented on this side. From 

 Farmington Grove and New Barn — the two extreme 

 meets on the south-west — hounds will draw the Wood, 

 and the Sherborne. From Barrington Park they have 

 Windrush Gorse, with Westwell Poor's Lots and the 

 Wood of Tangley for the afternoon. When, however 

 Barrington Inn is advertised, it more often means that 

 Westwell Gorse will be first drawn, and Sherborne 

 kept for a second fox. Bourton-on-the-Water is for 

 Lord Kedesdale's Gorse. Tangley has quite a day's 

 work in itself — being possessed of numerous planta- 

 tions in hollows leading from one to the other : but 

 sometimes Rissington Spinnies are reached later in 

 the day, with the prospect of a run over a fine grass 

 vale. Eyford is also among the walls, though there is 

 a frequent chance of gettting to Slaughter Copse 

 and Yale as the day progresses. Longboro', for 

 variety, is all vale in the morning, with Sezincote 

 and the wolds in the afternoon. Bourton-on-the-Hill, 

 in the far north-east, has a large wood on its hill : 

 after which Batsford Park is generally reached, and a 

 stifi" country entered. 



Saturday is devoted to a wide tract on the south- 

 east, Whichwood Forest and Blenheim Park being the 

 two leading features. Whichwood Forest, though 

 now disforested in the technical sense of the term, 

 still covers an immense area below Charlbury; and 

 contains as much as a thousand acres of wood in 

 one piece — besides numerous smaller woods almost 

 touching each other, and a huge acreage of tree 

 stumps and uncultivated ground. It ought to be a 



