216 Hunting Countries of England, 



Abingdon side of the territory, we get into a country 

 whose chief characteristics are plough and large woods. 

 The open consists almost entirely of arable, crossed by 

 many small 2:rips ; and with the fields divided by open 

 ditches. Of the woods (Tubney Tree being the meet), 

 Appleton Common (Bessels-Leigh the meet), and 

 Bagley (Foxcombe Hill, near Oxford) are the chief — 

 with Wittenham on the extreme east. Wytham Wood 

 is the great overhanging covert looking down on the 

 Thames near Oxford — for which Cumner is the meet — 

 the woodland being the property of Lord Abingdon. 

 From the fixture of Marcham Park they draw the 

 Marcham coverts; and from Steventon Green they 

 have Milton Hill Gorse and Hendred Cow Lease — the 

 latter being a wood with grass on its south side and 

 plough again elsewhere. Sutton Courtney is for 

 Culham and Milton Hill. South Moreton and East 

 Hagborn are fixtures in the extreme south-east, from 

 which they draw East Hagborn Spinney and Cholsey 

 Lease, in a cramped close country, where grass and 

 plough alternate. Nuneham Park and Woods are 

 kept for cub-hunting purposes by the Old Berkshire, 

 and are then handed over for the winter months for 

 the use of the South Oxfordshire. 



