8P0RT IX THE WOORE COUNTRY. U5 



From the Hon. secretary's diary : 



" November 22nd, 188G. Norton- in- HaJes. — Drew Glade Wood and Golling's 

 Rough blank. Found in Corbet's Gorse, but, after ringing about for some time, 

 hounds running sharply at times, he got to ground in a main earth in Golling's 

 Rough. This earth had not been stopped, and this was no doubt the reason of 

 our not having found there. Found again at Bellaport, but an unlucky check 

 near the Canridden spoilt what might have been a nice run. 



^^ November 2i^fh, 1886. Woore. — Found a brace in Canridden. One came 

 away at top side, pointing for Woore. Turning to the left, he skirted Woore, 

 and thence, leaving Onneley to the right, went over Barr Hill, and back into the 

 Madeley end of Wrinehill, and thence back for Onneley, when we gave it up. 

 From Woore to Barr Hill was very good. Drew Heathcote's Gorse, Admiral's 

 Gorse, and Harrow's Wood blank. Found a brace in Mill Hay ; after hanging in 

 the covert a short time, a real good one broke away from the bottom. Passing 

 Admiral's Gorse and Heathcote's Gorse on the left, we went through a corner of 

 Wrinehill Wood and on by AVrinehill Mill, and along the left of the London and 

 North- Western Railway to near Chorlton. Here our fox had laid down in a 

 thick pit-hole, and he jumped up among the hounds, and was caught in about 

 three or four fields' distance. Time, one hour and thirty minutes. We never 

 went very fest, but kept steadily at it all the time. It was a real good 

 hunt. 



" Derember 6th, 1886. Doddington. — Found at once in Chapel Wood. After 

 a ring round the Wood Pool, got him away for Buerton, and then ran a good 

 hunting ring by Buerton Mill, and back into Doddington Park. Here the hounds 

 worked up to then" fox, who had laid down in some fern, and then raced him by 

 Bridgmere Lodge mto Shaw's Rough, and then, after a short ring round three 

 or four fields, they caught him in Shaw's Rough. Time from find to kill, about 

 two hoiu's^hunting all the time. The ring by Buerton was very good ; we thought 

 we changed foxes somewhere, but could not be sure where. Drew Lea Forge, 

 Jerusalem, < tc, blank, but found again at Walgherton Pool. Ran a very fast 

 ring by Hacherton Heath and Houghton's Gorse, and back by Walgherton Lodge 

 to Chapel Wood. Did not go into Chapel Wood, but, leaving it just on the left 

 hand, went on by the Broomlands, and stopped hounds just beyond Hatherton 

 Heath, as it was getting quite dark. Time, about one hour and thirty minutes. 

 The first forty-five mmutes was quite first class. After that it became slow 

 hunting. Capital day's sport. 



" December 8th, 1886. Sherratfs Wood. — Did not find in Sherratt's Wood, 

 but found a brace on the heath, and ran in rings round Sherratt's Wood and 

 Birchwood Park three or four times and lost in a snowstorm. Found again in 

 Bromley Wood, and ran fast by the gorse and Brindley's Wood to Birchwood Park, 

 and through it by Fradswell Hall and on for Milwich village. Turning to the right 

 tip the valley, they went by Hilderstone Hall and Bird-in-Hand, and skuting 

 Bromley and Hose Wood to the river Blythe, and then to the right again by 

 Leigh Station and into Brindley's Wood, where a brace of fresh foxes got up and 

 went away to Sherratt's Wood, and hounds were stopped between that wood 

 and Draycot Woods. Time, two hours and five minutes. Very severe run. W. 

 Dobson killed his horse. 



'^ December 10th. Almington. — Drew Peatswood blank. Found a brace in 

 a covert at Old Springs. Ran a ring by the Spoil Bank across the canal and back 

 again by Peatswood and Old Springs to Johnson's Wood ; then across to Hales 

 and round by Almington back to Johnson's Wood ; and here a long check 



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