The Radnorshire and West Hereford. 101 



THE E.ADNOESHIUE AND AVEST 

 HEEEEORD.* 



Among the several very sporting, tliougli avowedly 

 rather rough, countries on the outskirts of Wales, by 

 no means the worst is the one bearing the above title. 

 Its dingles are much less plentiful — and of a much 

 milder type — and its woods are far less awesome, than 

 those of some of its neighbours; while its hills, though 

 lofty, are in most instances smoothly sloped and 

 readily surmounted. Not that it is all hill ; for West 

 Hereford has a level and goodly vale, and then some 

 quietly rising ground to meet the more vigorous out- 

 lines of Radnorshire. The Kennels, and the Master's 

 house, at Castle Weir, near Titley, are situated on this 

 intermediate slope — overlooking the level vale that 

 stretches right and left at its feet from the Arrow to 

 the Wye, and that is bounded in the westward distance 

 by the wooded heights of Ladylift and other strong- 

 holds of the North Herefordshire. To the rear of the 

 kennels, the country undulates easily and openly in 

 grass and plough, till it nears the Radnorshire frontier. 

 Before reaching it, the highest ground encountered is 



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

 Foxliuntino; Atlas. 



