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    From Guns to pens

    Dec 29, 2021 4 minutes

    Today, few people making the 10-mile road journey from the A31 to the Sandbanks peninsula, now some of the most expensive real estate in the world, realise they are travelling through land that formed the Canford Manor shoot, one of the greatest lost shoots in England.

    Owned by the 1st Lord Wimborne, the shoot regularly produced bags of between 500 and 1,500 pheasants brought down by guests who included the cream of shooting society, from Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (the eldest son of the Prince of Wales) and the Dukes Teck, Marlborough, Wellington, Westminster and Roxburghe, the Marquesses of Bath and Northampton and the Lords Rendlesham, Castlerosse

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