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Thursday, thougli on the roughest and most hilly- 

 part of the country, is by no means considered the 

 worst day of the week with the Tedworth. At the 

 fixture of Southgrove is a fine wood of the Marquis 

 of Aylesbury^s ; Oxenwood Village is on the hills bv 

 the borders of the Craven ; Yernham Gate has a fine 

 covert well kept by Mr. Bevan ; Conholt is for Conholt 

 Coverts, excellent places for foxes ; and Chute Lodge 

 has small woods and a gorse, where foxes are always 

 found — all these lastnamed meets being in the same 

 rough hilly country. Crawlboys Farm and Colling- 

 bourne Shears are for the great Collingbourne Wood, 

 aforementioned — upon which Assheton Smith made 

 his famous experiment of forcing foxes to break, by 

 means of bonfires along the rides. Eedenham, Penton 

 Lodge, and Weyhill, when advertised, are for nearly 

 the same district — including the woods of Kedenham 

 and the gorse at Penton. 



Saturday takes the south-east of the coilntry. 

 About Coombe Wood, which, with Buttermere Wood, 

 is lent by the Craven, it is hilly^ flinty and rough; 

 but the foxes are wild and the sport often good. At 

 Faccombe are very large woods : Pill Heath is a fine 

 covert adjoining Doles Wood — Doles Gate and Enham 

 being for the same two draws. Quarley Hill, near 

 Grateley, has a nice covert of moderate size belonging 

 to the Marquis of Winchester. Longstock, on the 

 edge of the country bordering on the Hursley, has a 

 few little osier beds by the river. At Tangley are a 

 couple of very useful woods ; and from Clatford Oak- 

 cuts, they draw some small, but good, coverts near 

 Stockbridge, on the more level ground. 



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