Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and the northern part of Essex, known collectively as East Anglia, boasts a sporting pedigree as wild and diverse as its people. It is no idle swank to say that much of the sport enjoyed today in England was either invented, first recorded or formalised here in the east. This is the home of the Jockey Club and Swaffham Coursing Club. The notably picky red-legged partridge decided, (with a little help from the Marquis of Hertford) that Suffolk was just the place to be. This is the birthplace of driven pheasant shooting and ancestral home of the punt-gun.
Izaak Walton fished our waters and wrote a masterpiece about it; other sporting literary greats followed in his wake. John Humphreys, Allan Savory and James Wentworth Day penned images of East Anglian wild sport. Henry Williamson escaped notoriety
