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Photo by David Burrell
More in the Gallery If you would like copies of any of David Burrell's photos in the Gallery @ £8.00 framed for one 10" x 8" or two 7" x 5" prints (plus delivery if outside the CH area), please email him from the Contact page quoting the album name and photo number ('Pnnn'). All profit goes to the CHSC. Last season's hunting pictures will be cleared from the Gallery in September in preparation for the new season, so get your order in NOW! |
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We welcome visitors on horse, foot, car or bicycle. In spite of the ban on hunting with dogs, we are able to participate in a lot of what hunting had to offer before the government ban in February 2005. But until the Hunting Act is repealed or amended, we are engaged solely in hunting within the law. Whilst this enables us to use our hounds out in the country, it does not allow us to repay our farmers’ generosity by providing them with a full fox-control service.
From 1666 until 2005, the Cottesmore (say ‘Cotsmore’*) had hunted foxes with hounds in and around the ancient English county of Rutland. In spite of the construction of Cottesmore airfield in 1935, the completion of Rutland Water reservoir in 1978 which removed 3100 acres (1255 hectares) of hunting country, widespread national hunt saboteur activity in the late 1980s and the 2004 Hunting Act, the Cottesmore continues to flourish as a club. Its country converges with that of its neighbours the Quorn and the Belvoir (Duke of Rutland’s) in the Leicestershire market town of Melton Mowbray which in its heyday was a magnet for foxhunters worldwide and now has the UK's only foxhunting museum.
* - from Cott's Moor
350 years and still going strong. For’ard on!

