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Mr. George Templer, of the South Devon^ was wont 

 to bring his hounds every spring", and hunted it from 

 Rev. John Eussell's house at South Molton. The 

 latter then took to keeping hounds himself ; and up to 

 1852 this territory was worked as neutral ground by 

 his pack and the Tiverton, after which date it was 

 hunted by the late Hon. Newton Fellows, and subse- 

 quently by Lord Portsmouth. In 1875 a rearrange- 

 ment was brought about by Lord Portsmouth 

 receiving from the Hon. Mark Rolle a convenient 

 addition south of Eggesford House, whereupon he 

 relinquished the Dulverton side to Mr. Froude-Bellew 

 — and the Dulverton first became a separate country. 

 The Stars of the West adjoin it on the north and west 

 where it runs into Exmoor Forest; Mr. LuttrelFs 

 on the north-east; and the Tiverton — or Mr. Rayer's 

 — on the south-east. Two distinct component parts 

 go to make up the Dulverton country — the one being 

 open moorland, the other strong hilly woodland with 

 a groundwork of grass enclosures fenced and banked 

 far beyond the power of horse to surmount. It is 

 towards the extreme north, where the Barle and other 

 streams take their source from the '^ Moor '^ proper, 

 that the best sample of the former is to be found : 

 but commons of more or less extent run down from 

 Exmoor far into the heart of Mr. Froude-Bellew's 

 territory. Of these Anstey (East and West) Molland, 

 Dulverton, Hawkridge, Winsford, and Withypool 

 are the chief. It is only of late years that some 

 thousands of acres have been added to the area of 

 impracticable enclosures. On the Forest of Exmoor 

 itself heather grows but scantily ; but on the tributary 



