278 Hunting Countries of England. 



THE TEDWOETH.* 



Nine-Tenths of the Tedworfch country is situated on 

 the high table land, round whose base run the Kennet, 

 the Avon, and the Test — the border line of the 

 counties of Wilts and Hants nearly bisecting it from 

 north to south. Downs and light wold — all unfenced 

 — divide this table land between them. Fur the rest, 

 there is a narrow strip of low land in the north-west 

 corner, termed the Pewsey Vale ; and there are heavy 

 woodlands on the far east. Marlborough is about 

 the extreme northern point of the Ted worth; Andover 

 is close to its eastern boundary ; Stockbridge and 

 Salisbury mark its southernmost limit ; and Devizes is 

 just over its north-west frontier. With reference to 

 its neighbours (and being in itself of considerable size, 

 it touches many), it has the Craven on the north, the 

 Vine and H.H. on the east, the Hursley and Earl 

 of Radnor^s on the south, the South and West Wilts 

 on the west, and the Duke of Beaufort^s on the 

 north-west. The Salisbury and Devizes road traces 

 its western, and that of Salisbury and Stockbridge its 

 southern boundary. Beyond these lines of demarca- 



* Vide " Stanford's Large Scale Map," Sheet 21 ; also 

 Hobson's Foxhuiitino- Atlas." 



