58 The Hunting Countries of England. 



Bar. Eavenfield and Hooton-Eoberts (whicli Lord 

 Fitzwilliam retains in his own hands) have each a 

 good gorse : and at Denaby (a name that is best known 

 in connection with the great colliery _, employing some 

 3000 miners) is a large oak- scrub wood_, where several 

 litters of foxes are always bred. Crook Hill House is 

 another meet hereabouts : with Clifton (also remaining 

 in Lord Fitzwilliam^ s hands) close by. Half way 

 between Clifton and Wickersley lies Micklebring 

 GorsOj which is held to be the crack covert of the 

 Hunt — lying'^ as it does^ in the middle of a beautiful 

 little grass valley. Half a mile beyond Micklebring 

 is Mr. Wood's Gorse ; and the same good sportsman 

 who owns it also takes good care of Silverwood, the 

 meet of both for which may be Ravenfield or Hooton- 

 Eoberts. Foxes from any of this cluster of coverts 

 will most likely take their flight across the border for 

 Lord Scarboro's place, Sandbeck Park. A couple of 

 miles south of Doncaster is Edlington Wood — a 

 capital covert of some 600 or 700 acres, the property 

 partly of Lord Fitzwilliam and partly of Mr. 

 Foljambe, a joint ownership that speaks for itself as 

 far as foxes are concerned. The meet for the last- 

 named covert is sometimes Edlington Village,, some- 

 times Warms worth. Its rides are wide and well 

 turfed; and the favour it finds with foxes not 

 unnaturally extends to the field. A single day might 

 suffice to run through the little string of coverts just 

 enumerated. But, as each is likely to show a litter or 

 two every year, and there is plenty of space outside 

 and over the border, they stand a great deal of work 

 before the supply runs short. St. Catherine's Well 



