74 The Hunting Countries of England. 



SIR ATATKIN WYNN'S.* 



A VERY sporting and enjoyable country is that hunted 

 by Sir Watkin from bis beautiful seat at Wynnstay, 

 Euabon. From Chester in the north almost to 

 Shrewsbury in the south, from Whitchurch in the 

 east across to the Welsh Hills, comprises a territory in 

 which Denbighshire, Cheshire, and Shropshire are all 

 represented. And, though backed along its whole 

 length by the rugg-ed mountains of Wales, the bulk 

 of its extent is a level plain, eminently suitable for 

 foxhunting operations of the pleasantest kind. A light, 

 and fairly easy, riding country, carrying a good scent, 

 having a fine supply of foxes and a splendid pack to 

 drive them — no wonder Sir Watkin^ s is a popular 

 Hunt, or that men troop in over the borders whenever 

 opportunity offers. 



In describing the country the mountains may be 

 left out of calculation altogether. Hounds never go 

 there, unless carried up by some highland wanderer ; 

 and then they get on to wondrous rough ground, amid 

 bogs and boulders, heather and moss, where they can 

 run hard, but where no horseman can follow them — 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheet 8, and Hobson's 

 Foxliuutinof Atlas. 



