196 The Hunting Countries of England, 



THE SHROPSHIRE* 



In the present Shropshire country are included the 

 two divisions north and south of the town of Shrews- 

 bury, that in the maps referred to are coloured in 

 as The North Shropshire and The Shrewsbury 

 respectively. Lord Hill, the present Master, hunted 

 the whole between the years 1866-^69. He then 

 relinquished the Shrewsbury side to Mr. Robert 

 Burton, and the country was split into two. Lord Hill 

 still hunting the north side till 1877, when Sir 

 Vincent Corbet became Master. In 1881 Lord Hill 

 again assumed the direction of an united Hunt. His 

 Lordship was wont to carry the horn himself; but of 

 this his health does not now allow, and a huntsman 

 does the three-days-a-week work which the country 

 affords. 



Shrewsbury, then, is now the centre-point of The 

 Shropshire Hunt — its domain extending as far as 

 Market Drayton, and almost to Whitchurch, in the 

 north — where Sir Watkin Wynnes, The Cheshire, and 

 the North Staffordshire run, with it, nearly to a 

 common apex. The Albrighton bounds it on the 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheets 13 and 14, and 

 Hobson's Foxhunting Atlas. 



