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Hunt facts: Eggesford

Rebecca Austen

5 January, 2006

Hunt: first hunted by Hon Newton Fellowes in 1798. Today’s country is very similar to that hunted from 1858 onwards by Lord Portsmouth

Country: extends some 19 miles east to west and 20 miles north to south. Best centres are Okehampton and Eggesford. Shared with Tiverton Staghounds. Mixed farming with deciduous copses and steep valleys

Number of subscribers: 60

Masters: Colin Ash, Norman & Celia Brend, Gary Boon

Staff: huntsman is Gary Boon; whipper-in Jamie Parish, kennelman Robin Hodgson; stud groom Jo Herbert

Best thing about the hunt: “The landowners and the fact we have such a large country means we are never short of a day’s hunting. And the area secretaries make the masters’ job so much easier” — Gary Boon

“I have been here all my life and know everybody and that is all part of what hunting is about” — Colin Ash

Cost subscription: £200

Cost visiting: £25 a day

Hirelings: Norman and Celia Brend (tel: 01769 580366)

Secretary: Debbie Willings (tel: 01363 775974)

  • Find out how Rebecca Austen enjoyed her day out with the Eggesford in the current issue of Horse & Hound (5 January, '06)


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