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Great coverts^ as above mentioned, follow tlie course 

 of the Severn. Traps Eock, Homer Common, and 

 Farley Common carry on the chain from the verge of 

 Wenlock Edge Wood; and we then come to Lord 

 Forester's mass of riverside woods — Tick Wood, AVyke, 

 Benthall Edge to Coalport Wood and Caughley Big- 

 Woods. Travelling southward along the Severn 

 Bank, we find The Rookery and Chesnut Coppice 

 {Mr. W. 0. Foster's), the Stanley coverts (Sir Henry 

 Tyrwhitt's), and Severn Hall. 



Below Bridgnorth, and in the southern half of the 

 country, are Cliff Cop, Eardington Forge, the Hampton 

 and the Highley coverts — which brings us down to 

 the Forest. From any of these latter riverside coverts 

 a fox may eventually break over the hill with '^ three 

 courses open to him,'' viz., to make for Kinlet (where 

 are large woods belonging to the Childe family), and 

 thence find his way to the Forest; or, secondly, to 

 steer by Billingsley (the Duke of Cleveland's), Chorley, 

 Stottesdon, and the Sidbury coverts (Mr. Cresswell's), 

 and round, possibly, to Kinlet and the Forest; or, 

 thirdly, to take the line of the Chelmarsh Bottoms (a 

 string of covert along the Borle Mill Brook, from 

 Highley to Woodlands) . The stream of the Rea on 

 the west, it may be mentioned, is, unlike the other 

 brooks, fairly free from covert. 



For the two days of hunting the country is held to 

 be divided between the Bridgnorth side (the south and 

 east) and the Corvedale side. Tuesday being for the 

 former — Morvill is the meet that most often takes in 

 on that day the Meadowley Hill Range and the 

 Aldenham coverts; Willey is fixed for the woods 



