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difficult to get away from. The most desirable points 

 from here are Heythrop Park and other coverts in that 

 country. Other places of meeting are Barton House 

 for Barton Gorse^ with Salford Osiers a tempting and 

 pleasant direction for a fox, to carry him over the 

 border. Golden Cross on the Fosse Road has 

 Golden Cross Gorse, a new covert given by Sir 

 G. Philips of Weston House — twelve acres of gorse 

 four miles from another covert, and lying in a good 

 grass country. Brailes is another Tuesday meet, with 

 a good supply of foxes at hand. 



Thursday is for the extreme east, adjoining the 

 Pytchley country, and calling in numbers from the 

 Rugby and Daventry districts. Lower Shuckburgh is, 

 far exceUence, the meet of the Hunt. The coverts to 

 be drawn are those of Shuckburgh Hill and Calcut 

 Spinney — both rare places, the latter perhaps the best 

 covert the Warwickshire possess. From the Hill to 

 Ladbroke, or in the other direction to Braunston 

 Gorse of the Pytchley, are beautiful lines over a stiff 

 grass country ; while from Calcut Spinney to Birding- 

 bury, or to Bunkers Hill of the North Warwickshire, 

 make many a splendid gallop. From Birdingbury 

 Hall they have Debdale, and small coverts at the Hall 

 — the former a certain find, and likely for a burst to 

 Shuckburgh or Bunkers Hill. Ufton Wood is the 

 meet for the great, holding covert there — through 

 whose dense thickets there is scarcely a ride. Lad- 

 broke Gorse is probably better famed than any covert 

 in the Hunt ; and is generally an afternoon draw from 

 Shuckburgh or Ufton Wood. Watergall is another 

 good gorse ; and Harbury is often named to draw it or 



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