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heath (part of which belongs to Rev. Armitstead, is a 

 rough heathery moorland. 



Wednesday is^ as a rulo;, the day for Delamere 

 Forest — among whose wooded depths horsemen 

 must keep to the rides, but where hounds can work 

 vigorously and foxes are very plentiful. Vale Eoyal 

 (Lord Delamere's) and Delamere House (Mr. George 

 Wilbraham's) are two of the more usual meets. 



Thursday is for the Chester side, alternately in the 

 Chester Vale and the Oulton, or Crewe, district. 

 Among the best Vale meets are Tattenhall Station, 

 Stapleford Mill, and Tarporley Town End. From the 

 first-named hounds will probably begin work at 

 Handley or Crowds Nest : from Stapleford they have 

 Cotton Gorse (a fine stronghold of briar and gorse) or 

 Waverton Gorse : and fi'om Tarporley Town End they 

 will perhaps commence with Huxley Gorse and 

 Clotton Hoofield. From any Vale meet they may 

 draw the covert of Saighton. Occasionally, too, they 

 meet at Saighton Grange; and perhaps draw Eaton 

 Drives. 



On the alternate Thursday there is a meet at Oulton 

 Park for the coverts round Darley, The Adjuncts, the 

 celebrated Oulton Low and Philo (all the property of 

 Sir Philip Egerton). From here they get on to the 

 Calveley neighbourhood, where are the coverts of 

 Page's Wood, Calveley Old and New Gorse, HilFs 

 Gorse, Wetenhall Wood, Darnall and Blakeden — all 

 good places. Calveley, for seven years under the 

 guardianship of Capt. Kennedy, was during that 

 period continually highly tried, but never tried in 

 vain. The chief coverts towards Crewe are Braidby, 



