The Badsworth. 7 



Cawthorne (Mr. W. S." Stanhope^ s), and Woolley 

 (Mr. a. Wentworth's). 



Should you be minded to see the Badsworth at work, 

 Doncaster or Pontefract offers the most commanding 

 points and the best accommodation. The Great 

 Northern will land you at either in three hours and a 

 half to four hours from London. A hunter, strong 

 and well bred, is necessary in the Badsworth country 

 throughout ; and the natives have always shown 

 themselves equal to the occasion by breeding horses 

 of this type for their own riding*. Of late years, 

 however, the farmers of Yorkshire, as everywhere else, 

 have been glad to dispose of anything worth the 

 attention of the extraneous buyer ; and are much less 

 fi^equently seen riding horses of the stamp and quality 

 for which the county has been so famous. Indeed, 

 fewer farmers are seen out hunting at all now than in 

 former years ; and, altogether, the Badsworth field is 

 generally a limited one, except, as above-mentioned, 

 on holiday Saturday. 



It should be noted, as a feature of the country, that 

 the River Went almost bisects it in its course from 

 west to east. Only near its source is it comfortably 

 jumpable. Soon afterwards it developes to proportions 

 demanding ford or bridge, and constituting a source 

 of anxiety when hounds are seen to be heading 

 towards it. 



