The Heythrop. 207 



grand place for cub-hunting ; but hounds are not 

 allowed in it till later in the autumn — and the same 

 remark applies to Blenheim. Thus^ all the cub-hunting 

 of the Heythrop has to be done in the smaller coverts. 

 Cornbury Park is the meet for Which wood Forest 

 proper; Shipton Barrow for a gorse near, and for the 

 coverts at the upper edge of the Forest. Wilcot is 

 for the Wilcot Spinnies and Chase Woods, after which 

 the rest of the day may be spent in Stockley Wcod. 

 Eynsham is in the deepest, most stiffly fenced, and 

 most holding, part of the country, and has Cogg's 

 Wood previous to a move on to Blenheim. The latter 

 is a mass of large woods, from which foxes seldom 

 travel far — though last season a good run thence was 

 put on record. Dean Cross Roads, not far from 

 Charlbury, is a good meet, with a fine vale for some 

 three miles round — Dean Grove being the draw. 

 After this, hounds have to fall back upon Dytchley 

 Woods. Sturges Castle is for Tackley Heath, 

 Rousham Spinnies, and Barton — all amid plough and 

 heavy going. Kiddington Gate points to the same 

 sort of country — indeed, all up the side of the 

 Charwell, may be set down as the worst ground in 

 the Hunt. From Kiddington the order is generally 

 for Glympton Heath (a large rough gorse), with 

 Kiddington Wood and Glympton Wood to fill up the 

 day. 



