Airedale Beagles

The Airedale Beagles is a beagle pack founded in 1891.

Airedale Beagles
Dawson Jowett and Tom Clark with the pack, 1891
Hunt typeBeagling
Country England
History
Founded1891
Parent packBradford Harriers
Historical quarryHare
Hunt information
Hound breedBeagle
Hunt countryWest Yorkshire &North Yorkshire, bordering Lancashire
Master(s)M Spilsbury & P A Osbaldiston
QuarryRabbit
KennelledSilsden
Websitewww.airedalebeagles.com

History

The pack was founded in 1891 following a chance meeting between Dawson Jowett and Tom Clark, the former becoming the huntsman and the latter the kennelman.[1][2][3][4] The pair are believed to have made use of hounds from the Bradford Harriers which was disbanded several years earlier.[5]

The pack was trencher fed until 1922 when kennels and a huntsman’s house was built in Eldwick, the pack is now kennelled in Silsden.[1]

Since the passing of the Hunting Act of 2004, the pack hunts scent trails and rabbits and is very occasionally called to locate hares that have been injured following a shoot, all of which is permitted under the legislation.[1][6]

Hunt country

The country hunted is in West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire, bordering Lancashire, from Trawden in the south-west, to Horton in Ribblesdale in the north and Otley in the east, including Rombalds Moor, the terrain is fell and rough pasture with high stone walls.[1][4][7]

See also

References
  1. "Beagle 'hunts' flourishing in spite of national ban". Keighley News. High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Newsquest Media Group Ltd. 25 January 2007. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  2. Lomax, Claire (27 December 2016). "Crowds turn out for Boxing Day meet of Airedale Beagles". Ilkey Gazette. High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Newsquest Media Group Ltd. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  3. Lowerson, John (1993). Sport and the English Middle Classes, 1870-1914. Manchester: Manchester University Press. p. 34. ISBN 0719046513.
  4. Page, William. The Victoria History of the County of York. A. Constable Ltd. p. 501.
  5. "History of the Airedale Beagles". Airedale Beagles. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  6. "Hare hunt has run its course". Telegraph & Argus. High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Newsquest Media Group Ltd. 18 February 2005. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  7. Colville, Robert (2016). The Famous Beagling Packs of Great Britain. Warwickshire: Read Country Books. ISBN 9781473356511.
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