248 Hunting Countries of England. 



Laune, Hon. Sec. to the Hunt ; and Sharsted Wood 

 is always a find. 



Thursday is always on the Canterbury side. From 

 Stone Stile, Chilham they take Mr. Hardy's coverts. 

 Lees Court is the seat of Lord Sondes, who owns a 

 great part o£ that side of the country. At Belmont 

 are many small woods of Lord Harris's, who has the 

 interest of the Hunt at heart. He also owns Long- 

 beech, a wood of 1500 acres, which is a certain find, and, 

 large as it is, not very difficult to get away from. Syndale, 

 the property of Mr. Hall, son of the last Master of the 

 Tickham, is surrounded by fox coverts, and is a near 

 and favourite meet for foot people from Faversham. 

 The Kennels are a frequent meet for the woods in the 

 neighbourhood. Eastwell is for another "King's 

 Wood" at Challock which was once a good fox covert. 

 Occasionally hounds go down to Cale Hill Park on a 

 Thursday, where in the small woods close by they are 

 likely to find and get into a nice piece of country. 

 The great woods of Blean — stretching seven miles, 

 from Whit stable to Canterbury — and part of which 

 are hunted by the East Kent, used to be great places 

 for cub-hunting, besides availing for at least once a 

 fortnight during the season. There is now so compli- 

 cated a division of interest in their possession — and 

 that interest leans so largely towards the gun, that 

 they have lost half their value for fox-hunting. 



Saturday being for the Chatham and Maidstone 

 side of the country — the meet of The Hook-and- 

 Hatchet, Chatham, is with a view to the great wood- 

 lands near that town. Rough, ugly, coverts are these, 

 stretching right down to the Medway ; but they hold 



