2 2 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



that there is to be found, rivalHng the cold fallows of the 

 Craven country. Of course it is not all alike, and there is 

 here and there a bit of good country. Bramham Park and 

 Hare wood Park are great strongholds for foxes, and there 

 is some fair country round about those places ; but to the 

 west of Harewood the stone walls, as well as the heather 

 to be found in almost every field, tell what the country was 

 like not so very long ago. They go on as far as Poole, to 

 the south of Otley, and Otley Chevin is one of their 

 farthest fixtures west. There is a lot of good rough 

 country about here, though most of the hunting is confined 

 to woodland and moor. There is not a great deal of moor, 

 however, in the south-western district, but there is some 

 about Guiseley. Taken on the whole the south-western 

 portion of the country is easy to get over; there are very 

 few drains, and these not formidable when measured along- 

 side such places as Boggart House and Catterton, neither 

 are the fences very big. It is a part of the country, too, 

 in which a man who is fond of seeing hound-work will find 

 plenty of pleasure, for hounds almost always have to work 

 for their fox, and unless they have plenty of nose they are 

 of no use there. 



The north-west portion of the country, that which lies 

 to the west of the Monday country proper, is a good 

 wild sporting country, and one in which great runs are 

 sometimes seen. It consists chiefly of moors, but they are 

 moors over which hounds can be ridden to. As in most 

 moorland countries the foxes are wild and stout, and take 

 some killing. At Blubberhouses the country is practically 

 all moor, and hounds do not very often go there. Indeed 

 there is a good deal of the Bramham country, or what is 

 known as the Bramham country, on this side, which is not 

 easy of access, and which is practically unhuntable, and very 

 few foxes are found west of Haverah Park and Swarcliffe, 



