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Witchley Warren, Normanton Lodge ; and 

 from Manton station Wing, Lyndon or Egle- 

 ton. Oakham station is in proximity to Barley 

 Park, Ex ton Park, Whit well, Cottesmore, 

 Barrow, and Market Overton. 



The preservation of foxes in this hunt is 

 generally respected, though perhaps they 

 may not in some places be quite so abundant 

 as could be wished ; but they are of a fine 

 wild race, five brace of which are worth 

 more than fifteen brace of short-running 

 brutes, whose voyages of discovery have 

 never extended many fields from the M^oods 

 in which they were bred ; many of the Cot- 

 tesmore foxes, like those in the Hon. George 

 Fitzwilliam's country, are stub bred, adding 

 further confirmation of a practice I have for 

 many years advocated, that of breaking up 

 all breeding earths. 



This hunt may well be proud of three of 

 the most magnificent places of meeting that 

 can be found throughout Her Majesty's 

 dominions. Exton Park, the seat of Earl 

 Gainsborough, Grimsthorpe Castle, the truly 

 noble property of Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, 

 and Burley Park, the charming residence of 

 G. Finch, Esq. Burley Park is on the 



