UNITED PACK 18 October
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United Pack, Shropshire 18 October
THE Shropshire and Welsh borderland of the United Pack - the largest two-day-a-week hunting country in the land boasts some of the most dramatic scenery anywhere in Britain. Open sheep pasture, tracts of forestry, small coverts and gorse breaks sit beneath an open sky from which you can see for miles to the Radnor Beacons or over to the Welsh coast, many more miles distant. It also boasts the one-time home and public house, The Anchor, of one of hunting’s great characters and writer, C N de Courcy-Parry, known as Bay, who, for more than 50 years, wrote for Horse & Hound as Dalesman.
Although Parry hunted other packs, notably the Staintondale, North Herefordshire, Wexford, West Warwickshire and West Cumberland, it is with the United that he will always be best and most fondly remembered. His popular masterships ran from 1928-39 and 1968-70.
Behind the pub, he kept a pack
