60 The Hunting Countries of England. 



THE CEAWLEY AND HOESHAM.* 



Down, weald, and forest are the three varieties of 

 ground which compose the present Crawley and 

 Horsham country. In running down to the sea, side 

 by side with the Southdown (and between it and 

 Lord Leconfield's), it cuts into both the range of 

 down on the coast and the lower weald inland, which 

 stretch across all three Hunts. North of the weald 

 again is an undulating and strongly- wooded dis- 

 trict, still denominated ^' the Forest ; ^^ and thus 

 the country is made up of three very distinct 

 sections. 



The geographical outline of the Hunt has been so 

 materially altered since the maps referred to in the 

 footnote were compiled, that they give little or no 

 idea of its present outline. The C. & H. (an abbrevia- 

 tion we must be allowed throughout this sketch) now 

 goes right down to Arundel, Worthing, and the sea 

 — by virtue of a gift of ground from Lord Leconfield. 

 On the other hand, the Hunt has thrown aside all the 

 western and cruder half of its old territory as coloured 

 on the maps, and has assumed an equally compact 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map/ Sheet 22, and Hobson's 

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



