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LORD COVENTEY'S.* 



The Severnside_, from Worcester to Tewkesbury for 

 its lengtli : its breadth from tbe Malvern Hills on the 

 west_, to tlie North Cots wold and The Warwickshire 

 boundaries on the east — will convey in some degree 

 the whereabouts and extent of the country hunted by 

 Lord Coventry. The southern quarter of Worcester- 

 shire would make an equally good definition ; and, as 

 most counties have their special peculiarities affecting 

 the fox banting in their midst, perhaps the latter 

 specification may be found the more explanatory. 

 Worcestershire is in character, as it is in position, 

 something between Warwickshire and Herefordshire. 

 While it has the small enclosures of the latter, and 

 many of its orchards, gardens, and paddocks, its 

 fences are more of a mild Warwickshire type. That 

 part of it hunted by Lord Coventry is — with the 

 striking exception of the Malvern and Bredon Hill 

 and the rugged north-eastern corner containing the 

 Ridgeway — more open and level than the bulk of 

 Herefordshire. The Malvern Hills run, a bold and 

 abrupt range of some fifteen hundred feet in height, 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheets 14 and 15, and 

 Hobson's Foxhunting Atlas. 



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