240 The Hunting Countries of England. 



THE SOUTH HEREEOEDSHIE.E.* 



The division of the Herefordshire into North and 

 South, and the various changes which led up to the 

 two countries being placed on their present bases, and 

 under present Mastership, have been already traced in 

 a sketch of the North Herefordshire. The two together 

 certainly do not make up too much ground for a single 

 Hunt ; and the city of Hereford seems the natural and 

 practical base from which a pack of hounds should 

 easily command the whole — for scarcely a meet in 

 either sub -division is more than thirteen miles distant, 

 as a crow would fly from the cathedral towers. But it 

 has been found more convenient to keep two separate 

 packs going — each undertaking two days a week. 

 Accordingly Hereford marks the point of demarcation 

 instead of remaining as a centre, and Mr. J. Eankin, 

 M.P. for Leominster — succeeding Capt. Lewis and 

 Capt. Helme, who were Masters for two and five years 

 respectively — maintains a pack at his beautiful place 

 Bryngwyn, some six miles south of the capital of the 

 county. The first local name to be written has about 

 it an air and a ring that at once suggest the propinquity 



Vide Stanford's "Hunting Map," Sheet 14, and Hobson's 

 Foxhunting Atlas. 



