My father remembers wild grey partridges regularly bursting from cover and spooking his horse as he hacked home from days with the Hampshire hunt in the early 1960s. I’m sure…
The Field
October 2023
The October issue of The Field sees the season underway with a bang and brimming with carefully curated, exclusive content and sporting articles. We’re on the peg with reports from…
Best properties with walled gardens
From 16th century homes to magnificent manors these properties all have something in common: beautiful walled gardens BEST PROPERTIES WITH WALLED GARDENS GLEBE HOUSE PYRFORD, WOKING, SURREY This is a…
Tea and its origins
The English are not the world’s greatest tea drinkers. This came as something of a surprise to me, having grown up in a house where tea was mainlined from morning…
The folly of follies
What is a folly? At times it seems as though there are as many definitions as there are follies themselves. The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as: ‘A costly ornamental…
Fishing the Flow Country
The Lowlands beyond the Highlands’ is an often used description of Caithness. But while the ‘Kingdom of the Cats’, which is surrounded by the mountains of Sutherland to the south…
How to prepare for the Hunting Season
Have you looked at your boots since last Season? When did you last leave the ground? Have you spoken to the farmer whose rails got broken? Summer still has that…
Ragley Estate – An Exclusive Venue
The panamas may have been put away and the trade stands dismantled after a wonderfully successful Game Fair, but that doesn’t mean life winds down on the Ragley Estate in…
Best Cartridge Bags
Cartridge bags are somewhat of a necessity in driven shooting and indeed some forms of walked-up days when you are alone on a hill chasing grouse and don’t have the…
High days at Belvoir
It’s a rare thing to find, that balance of history and modernity; opulence and functionality, but sitting atop a hill in the eponymous vale, Belvoir Castle does just that. The…