List of beagle, harrier and basset packs of the United Kingdom

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The Royal Rock Beagles started in 1845 and were for some time the oldest pack in the UK. Royal Rock Beagles by John Dalby 1845.png
The Royal Rock Beagles started in 1845 and were for some time the oldest pack in the UK.

This is a list of beagle, harrier and basset hounds (hare hunting) packs of the United Kingdom, registered with either the Association of Masters of Harriers and Beagles, or the Masters of Basset Hounds Association. Prior to the 2004 Hunting Act, these packs either hunted hare, or in the case of some harrier packs, foxes. Hunts are now obliged to either practice trail hunting, hunt rabbits (as has been the case with many beagle packs [2] ) or follow other exemptions set out in the Act.

Contents

There are 59 beagle packs and 19 harrier packs in the UK registered with the AMHB. The packs are listed by regions of England

Beagles

England

South West England

  • Britannia Beagles [3] – based at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth the pack dates back to 1878. [4]
  • Chilmark and Clifton Foot Beagles [3]
  • Dummer Beagles [3]
  • Ilminster Beagles [3]
  • Muddiford Beagles [5]
  • North Devon Beagles
  • Park Beagles [3] [5]
  • Pimpernell (Royal Signals) Beagles [3]
  • Purbeck and Bovington Beagles [3] [5]
  • Royal Agricultural College Beagles [3]
  • Severn Vale Beagles [3]
  • Stoke Hill & North Dartmoor Beagles [3] [5]
  • Taw Vale Beagles [3]
  • West Somerset Beagles [3]
  • Wick and District Beagles [3]
  • Wiltshire and Infantry Beagles [3]

West Midlands

  • North Warwickshire Beagles [3] [5]
  • Shropshire Beagles [3]
  • Warwickshire Beagles [3] [5]
  • Wyre Forest Beagles [3]

East Midlands

  • Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Staffordshire Beagles (DNS) [3]
  • Oakley Foot Beagles [3]
  • Per Ardua Beagles [3]
  • Pipewell Foot Beagles [3]

South East England

  • Blean Beagles
  • Bolebroke Beagles [3]
  • Brighton, Storrington, Surrey and North Sussex Beagles [3] [5]
  • Christ Church and Farley Hill Beagles [3]
  • Clinkard Meon Valley Beagles [3] [5]
  • Eton College Beagles [3] [5]
  • Isle of Wight Foot Beagles [3] [5]
  • New Forest Beagles [3]
  • North Bucks Beagles [3]
  • Old Berkeley Beagles [3] [5]
  • Palmer Marlborough Beagles [3] [5]
  • Pevensey Marsh Beagles [3]
  • Radley College Beagles [3] [5]
  • Sandhurst and Aldershot Beagles [3]
  • Stowe Beagles [3]

East of England

  • Norfolk Beagles Hound Club [3] (no hounds, other packs hunt country by invite)
  • Stour Valley Beagles [3] [5]
  • Trinity Foot and South Herts Beagles [3] [5]

Yorkshire and the Humber

North East England

  • Newcastle & District Beagles [3] [5]
  • Weardale & Tees Valley Beagles [3] [5]

North West England

  • Black Combe Beagles [3]
  • Bleasdale Beagles [3]
  • Cheshire Beagles [3]
  • Cumbria Beagles [3]
  • Forest and District Beagles [3]

Northern Ireland

Wales

Harriers

South West England

East of England

Yorkshire and the Humber

North West England

West Midlands

Bassets

England

Scotland

Wales

See also

Related Research Articles

Beagle Breed of small scent hound

The beagle is a breed of small scent hound, similar in appearance to the much larger foxhound. The beagle was developed primarily for hunting hare (beagling). Possessing a great sense of smell and superior tracking instincts, the beagle is the primary breed used as a detection dog for prohibited agricultural imports and foodstuffs in quarantine around the world. The beagle is intelligent. It is a popular pet due to its size, good temper, and a lack of inherited health problems.

Harrier (dog) A medium-sized hound bred for hunting hares by trailing them

The Harrier is a medium-sized dog breed of the hound class, used for hunting hares by trailing them. It resembles an English Foxhound but is slightly smaller, though not as small as a Beagle. The breed has been used since the mid 13th century.

Hound Type of hunting dog

A hound is a type of hunting dog used by hunters to track or chase prey.

Fox hunting Traditional equestrian hunting activity

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds. A group of unarmed followers, led by a "master of foxhounds", follow the hounds on foot or on horseback. In Australia, the term also refers to the hunting of foxes with firearms, similar to deer hunting.

Scent hound Dog type, hunting dog

Scent hounds are a type of hound that primarily hunts by scent rather than sight. These breeds are hunting dogs and are generally regarded as having some of the most sensitive noses among dogs. Scent hounds specialize in following scent or smells. Most of them tend to have long, drooping ears and large nasal cavities to enhance smell sensitivity. They relatively need to have high endurance to be able to keep track of scent over long distances and rough terrain. It is believed that they were originally bred by the Celts.

Beagling

Beagling is the hunting mainly of hares and also rabbits, but definitely not foxes, by beagles by scent. A beagle pack is usually followed on foot, but in a few cases mounted. Beagling is often enjoyed by 'retired' fox hunters who have either sustained too many injuries or lost the agility to ride horseback, or who enjoy the outdoors and the camaraderie of the hunt. It is also traditionally a way for young men and women to learn how to handle hounds on a smaller scale before they go on to hunt with foxhounds.

Rache Dog Breed

Rache, also spelled racch, rach, and ratch, from Old English ræcc, linked to Old Norse rakkí, is an obsolete name for a type of hunting dog used in Great Britain in the Middle Ages. It was a scenthound used in a pack to run down and kill game, or bring it to bay. The word appears before the Norman Conquest. It was sometimes confused with 'brache', which is a French derived word for a female scenthound.

Airedale Beagles

The Airedale Beagles is a beagle pack founded in 1891.

The Old Berkeley Beagles, or The OBB, is a beagle pack.

The Albany and West Lodge Bassets is a working basset pack.

The Westerby Basset Hounds is a working basset pack.

West Country Harrier Dog breed

The West Country Harrier, sometimes called Somerset Harrier, is a breed of scent hound from the south west of England that is used to hunt hare in packs. The West Country Harrier is often considered to be a variety of the more common Harrier breed, which is sometimes referred to as the Studbook Harrier.

Basset Scenthounds with short legs

Bassets are a sub-type of scenthound deliberately bred with short legs, that are used for hunting where the hunters accompany the hunting hounds on foot.

References

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  2. "Association of Masters of Harriers and Beagles-An Introduction to Beagling".
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  14. "Bassets of Scotland" Archived 28 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine , Baily's hunting directory, retrieved 19 December 2015.
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