CHAPTER XVI 



PRINCIPAL FIXTURES WITHIN TEN MILES OF THE 

 CHIEF HUNTING CENTRES 



Hacking to the Meet— Often good for the Horse — Fixtures from 

 Melton with the Quorn, Cottesmore and Belvoir — From 

 Market Harborough with the Cottesmore, Mr. Fernie's, 

 Woodland Pytchley and Pytchley — From Rugby with the 

 Pytchley, Atherstone, North Warwickshire and Warwickshire 

 ■ — From Leicester with Mr. Fernie's, the Atherstone and 

 Quorn — From Oakham with the Belvoir, Quorn, Cottesmore, 

 Mr. Fernie's, Woodland Pytchley and Fitzwilliam — From 

 Leamington with the North Warwickshire and Warwickshire. 



The following list of the fixtures of the hunts named 

 in this book which are within hacking distance of 

 the principal centres should be of use to the new- 

 comer to the neighbourhood, and may even be an 

 occasional help to the older residents. The out- 

 side radius is ten miles as the crow flies, and while 

 most of the fixtures given are well within this, a few 

 will be found to be just outside. Ten or twelve 

 miles is not too much even for one horse to be hacked 

 on to the place of meeting ; and if we have two out, 

 the first horse might even go farther. It has been 

 an opinion held by many men of experience that a 

 hunter is all the better for a steady trot of anything 

 under a dozen miles before hunting ; most people 

 find the ride to covert delightful, and though, as time 

 goes on, we should not be sorry to drive home again, 



