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with gorse round its edges) . Ash is a very popular 

 meet_, with excellent country all round, and Ash Wood 

 and some new coverts right well looked after by 

 Major Bulkeley who lives close by. New- Street-Lane 

 Lodge is for Styche or Shavington, in the comer 

 beyond Whitchurch. Styche itself is often adver- 

 tised^ for Styche Wood and Shavington Park 

 (Lord Kilmorey's). Sandford is the residence of 

 Mr. Sandford, a model for preservers. The reed 

 beds, osiers, plantations, &c., never fail to be thickly 

 tenanted. The meets of Ightfield and Cleverly may 

 point either to Sandford or Cleverly. 



Wednesday in the Cheshire Vale generally brings 

 out the largest fields, made up from The Cheshire, 

 Liverpool, Manchester, &c. But the Whitchurch side, 

 too, often has a very full attendance. 



