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The following is a list of foxhound packs in the United Kingdom, which are recognised by the Masters of Foxhounds Association. Fox hunting is prohibited in Great Britain by the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Hunting Act 2004 (England and Wales), but remains legal in Northern Ireland.
Prior to the fox hunting ban in the UK, hounds contributed to the deaths of 6.3% of the 400,000 foxes killed annually. [118] The hunts claim to provide and maintain a good habitat for foxes and other game, [66] and, in the US, have fostered conservation legislation and put land into conservation easements. Anti-hunting campaigners cite the ...
The hunt was formed by the merger of three separate foxhound packs: the Old Surrey, the Burstow and the West Kent. [1]The first recorded pack on the Surrey country was in 1735 at Lovells Grove, Croydon, where the Earl of Onslow lived, and by 1800 a pack for members of the merchant class (as opposed to the aristocracy) was hunting the country. [4]
In 1808 Mr Carrington Nunn succeeded Sir William as Master, remaining for about 50 years before handing over to his nephew Captain White, who moved the hounds to new kennels he built in Stratford St. Mary. [2] The kennels were moved to their current location in Layham during the Secord World War. [1]
Built in the 1930s for V.W.H (Cricklade) and still in use today by the re-amalgamated hunt. The Vale of the White Horse Hunt (or V.W.H.) is a fox hunting pack that was formed in 1832. It takes its name from the neighbouring Vale of White Horse district, which includes a Bronze Age horse hill carving at Uffington .
The Merstham Hunt used to periodically hunt the area until these hounds were given up in 1835, whereupon the local Henry Steere turned his harriers into foxhounds, hunting the forest country north of Horsham until around 1842, when the hounds were sold to Charles Bethune and extended the hunting country out to Findon and Dial Post. [3]
The Blankney Hunt branch of the Pony Club was established in 1938. [5]There is an annual Point-to-point meeting associated with the hunt. [6]The hunt has given its name to a Hunt class destroyer, Blankney and to a LNER Class D49 locomotive, No.247 The Blankney.
An American Foxhound. A foxhound is a type of large hunting hound bred for strong hunting instincts, a keen sense of smell, and their barking, energy, drive, and speed. [1] In fox hunting, the foxhound's namesake, packs of foxhounds track quarry, followed—usually on horseback—by the hunters, sometimes for several miles at a stretch; moreover, foxhounds also sometimes guard sheep and houses.