128 The Hunting Countries of England. 



LOED ZETLAND'S.* 



The country now hunted by the Earl of Zetland is 

 the home portion of the immense area which^ during 

 the latter part of last century and the early part of 

 the present^ constituted the celebrated Eaby Country 

 of the Earl of Darlington (afterwards Duke of 

 Cleveland) . Raby Castle, the Ducal residence, stands 

 in the heart of Lord Zetland^s territorj^; and the old 

 Raby pack not only took in the ground of the present 

 Bedale in the south, but in the north worked much 

 farther into Durham — where there were then^ of 

 course, none of the railways now slashing and cutting 

 the face of the county into so many minute slices. 

 Nor, on the other hand, did the iron horse exist to 

 whisk hounds down to their far distant meets : and 

 how the old Earl could cover such a vast extent of 

 country, even with a most lavish expenditure, is a 

 very marvel. 



Lord Zetland^s Kennels are at his beautiful seat, 

 Aske Park, near Richmond, on the southern borders 

 of his existing country — which embraces the extreme 

 north-west of Yorkshire and the south-west corner of 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheet 5, and Hobson's 

 Foxhnntinsr Atlas. 



