164 The Hunting Countries of England. 



THE BURSTOW.* 



An unpretending but very sporting little country is 

 the Burstow— close at hand for the Londoner, yet as 

 free from artificialism and Cockney attributes as if in 

 Yorkshire, instead of within twenty miles of the 

 metropolis. Not a grass country, over which hounds 

 can always race and horses must fly, it is yet the scene 

 of capital runs and good hound work. It has a rough 

 tract of forest in which to teach and practise a pack ; 

 the rest is flat and pretty vale — a Saturday holiday 

 ground, on which many a London business man finds 

 sport as ready to hand, and quite as bright and 

 thorough, as he can reach elsewhere. Of the two 

 days a week, Wednesday is advertised, that who will 

 may join in forest hunting ; while Saturday is kept 

 snug for subscribers, and for those who hold a local 

 interest in the vale. For, with Eeigate, Horley, and 

 Godstone, three stations on the edge of the vale, it is 

 easy to understand how readily the little country 

 might be inundated with excursionist foxhunters, from 

 city and suburbs, if an open invitation were given for 

 a day when everyone is at liberty. 



See Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheet 22 ; and Hobson's 

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



