The Cleveland. .331 



THE CLEYEL.VXD.* 



Occupying tlie topmost corner of sporting Yorkshire, 

 the Cleveland country commences on the wild North 

 York Moors, and reaches northward to the sea and 

 the Tees — the little town of Eedcar, and close to it 

 the Kennels, marking the point at which that river 

 merges into the German Ocean. Until about the year 

 1870, the Cleveland Hounds, like their neighbours the 

 Eskdale and the Sinnington, had no permanent 

 kennels ; but were entirely trencher-fed. At one 

 period indeed of their history (previous to the year 

 1817) they held a still humbler position — being hunted 

 and whipped-in to by men on foot, and running fox 

 and hare on alternate days. Needless to say, the 

 material which then composed the pack was in keeping 

 with the crude and somewhat haphazard state in which 

 it was maintained. 



Up to that time the hounds were known as the 

 Roxby ; but in June of that year, at a meeting held at 

 Loftus, the title of '^ The Eoxby and Cleveland " was 

 originated; and the Hunt inaugurated under the 

 presidency of Mr. John Andrew. By the rules of the 



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

 Foxhunting' Atlas. 



