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    Fox-Hunting in Lincolnshire - The Brocklesby and Belvoir Hunt and a Guide to the Country and Some of the Field
    Fox-Hunting in Lincolnshire - The Brocklesby and Belvoir Hunt and a Guide to the Country and Some of the Field
    Fox-Hunting in Lincolnshire - The Brocklesby and Belvoir Hunt and a Guide to the Country and Some of the Field
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    Fox-Hunting in Lincolnshire - The Brocklesby and Belvoir Hunt and a Guide to the Country and Some of the Field

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    Fox hunting has been a main stay of rural Britain for hundreds of years. This book looks at the most famous hunts from around Britain. This book focuses on Lincolnshire, with the Brocklesby and Belvoir hunts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJun 7, 2013
    ISBN9781473390638
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      THE COUNTRY AND THE HORSE REQUIRED.

      IN the time of the first Lord Yarborough the country extended over the whole of the present Brocklesby and South Wold countries, part of the Burton and part of the North Nottinghamshire, and Lord Yarborough used to go down into both those districts for a month at a time to hunt the woodlands. There were, as he told his grandson, when he began hunting, only two or three fences between Horncastle and Brigg, a distance of at least thirty miles, so most of the country must have been either woodlands, rabbit-warrens, or sheep-walks, and very little of the land could have been cultivated. Since that day it has been converted into one of the finest agricultural districts in England. No doubt in those days they adopted the plan of meeting at daybreak, and dragging up to their fox by following the line of his nightly rambles to where he lay down to digest his prey.

      The boundaries at the middle of the nineteenth century were: on the north, the Humber; on the east, the North Sea; on the west, the Trent; and on the south a wavy line drawn from Gainsborough, by Springthorpe, Aisby, Willoughton, Snitterby, Bishop’s Norton, Glentham, Toft Newton, Middle Rasen, Lissington, Legsby, Hainton, Brough-on-Bain, Welton, and Louth, and thence up the Louth Canal to Tetney Haven. Roughly speaking, the country was forty-five miles from east to west, and twenty-five miles from north to south. But since that time some of the country has been lent to the Burton and the South Wold, the former hunting the Kirton and Howsham countries on the west of the Great Central Railway from Lincoln to Grimsby, and east of the line as far as Claxby Wood, the eastern boundary being the High Street at Kirmond; while the latter come up to Kirmond, Binbrook, and North Ormsby. The agreements between Lord Yarborough and the masters of the Burton and South Wold were as follows:—

      "MEMORANDUM.

      "September, 1895.

      "In consequence of Lord Yarborough having temporarily reduced his hunting days, it is hereby agreed between him and Mr. Wilson, the Master of the Burton Hounds, that during the season 1895–6 and afterwards the Burton Hounds shall hunt that part of the Brocklesby Country which adjoins the Burton Hunt, vix.:—all that Country lying west of the River Ancholme and the M.S. and L. Railway to Linooln, bounded on the North by the Moortown Road, and on the West by the M.S. and L. Railway to Retford. Also that Claxby Wood shall be neutral to the Brocklesby and Burton Hunts.

      "This arrangement to terminate any season on notice being given on either side, in the January previous, to that effect.

      "That Linwoods, which are part of the Brocklesby Country, and have hitherto been made neutral by Lord Yarborough, at the request of the covert owners, between the Brocklesby and South Wold Hunts, shall continue to be hunted by the latter, but that the Burton Hounds shall have the privilege of drawing them whenever the Master finds they lie between any point to which his hounds have run and the Burton Country.

      "This arrangement to terminate, like the former, on notice being given by Lord Yarborough to the Masters of the Burton and South Wold Hunts.

      "Dated this 18th day of September, 1895.

      "(Signed) YARBOROUGH.

      THOMAS WILSOT."

      "MEMORANDUM.

      "September 16th, 1895.

      "In consequence of Lord Yarborough having temporarily reduced his hunting days, it is hereby agreed between him and Mr. Rawnsley, Master of the South Wold Hounds, that during the season 1895–6 and afterwards the South Wold Hounds shall hunt that part of the Brocklesby Country which adjoins the South Wold Hunt up to the Market Rasen and Louth Road viâ Binbrook as well as Grimble Wood.

      "That this arrangement shall terminate any season on notice being given on either side, in the January previous, to that effect.

      "That Linwoods, which are part of the Brocklesby Country, and have hitherto been made neutral by Lord Yarborough, at the request of the covert owners, between the Brocklesby and South Wold Hunts, shall continue to be hunted by the latter hounds, but that the Burton Hunt shall have the privilege of drawing them when the Master finds they lie between any point his hounds have run to and his own country.

      "This arrangement to terminate, like the former, on notice being given by Lord Yarborough to the Masters of the South Wold and Burton Hounds.

      "Dated this 16th day of September, 1895.

      "(Signed) YABBOROUGH.

      E. P. RAWNSLEY."

      The north-west part of Lincolnshire is not hunted, and hounds now seldom get east of the Great Northern Railway from Grimsby to Louth, except round Weelsby and Humberston. Taking the north-west portion of the country that is hunted, first, namely, that part to the west of the railway from New Holland to Brocklesby and thence to Brigg, there is a capital piece of country below the wolds, between Burton and Thornton, a fair proportion grass, and good fencing, each hedge having a ditch to it, and both well trimmed. The Barrow Osiers is the best covert in that small but excellent strip of country. There is a nice bit of wold country between the railway and the road from Burton to Brigg, but west of that road and down to the river Ancholme it is poor hunting, the foxes being scarce and lacking in enterprise, and the fences thin, unguarded plashed hedges, while Elsham, the southern part, is perforated with rabbit-holes and largely given over to the long-tails. Burton Market-place, Bonby Lodge, Elsham village, and Melton Gallows are the chief fixtures in this extreme north-western portion of the country, but the meets are poorly attended except by residents in the neighbourhood. Ferriby Gorse, Horkstow Covert, Turton’s Gorse, the Saxby, Bonby, and Worlaby hillsides, and the Elsham and Wrawby Moor Woods are the chief coverts.

      The bit of wold country above referred to is productive of much better sport, and such coverts as Burnham Gorse, Wootton Gorse, Melton High Wood, Yarborough Camp, and Long Close Wood have often been the starting-points of excellent runs. Though mostly trim wold fences, there are here and there some wide ditches to be negotiated, and an animal that can spread himself when necessary is very desirable in that country. Well do I remember the occasion when the Badsworth Hounds came by invitation to Brocklesby Station and a large crowd turned out to meet them. They found in the little covert on the south side of Rye Hill junction and ran hard over Ulceby, the writer alone counting twenty-seven falls in nineteen minutes, and one wide ditch, that Will Dale, Captain Pretyman, and the writer were first to negotiate, quickly swallowed up half a score of riders.

      Wootton Lawn, a breakfast meet for very many years, Burnham Beeches (another breakfast), Croxton Railway Bridge and Melton Railway Bridge, are the principal fixtures.

      Probably the beat bit of country within Lord Yarborough’s dominions, and certainly the most popular, is that beautiful stretch of marsh kind, all grass and open drains, that lies to the east of the railway from Brocklesby to New Holland, and north of the railway from Brocklesby to Grimsby. Here is the place to test the ability of man and horse, for the foxes are straight-necked, and hounds seldom go slow enough to allow the field to over-ride them; indeed, it is frequently a matter of great difficulty to keep with them at all. A galloping horse, and one that can fly a wide place if necessary, or creep and cramp a deep-sided bottomless drain when required, is a sine quâ non if you wish to be in measurable distance of the flying pack, and a lucky man is he who owns an animal that does all that is asked of him with confidence and safety. Such a horse should not be parted with; but if the owner must sell, let him not be afraid to open his mouth, for he has got a treasure. I said that, in the marshes, one

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