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The Wrackleford Shoot:
The Wrackleford Shoot is renowned for its quality of pheasants
and Partridges, set in the unspoilt deep Dorset chalk
valleys.
The shoot has developed hand in hand with conservation
over the last one hundered years, and is still run by
the same family. Many of the current plantations were
planted specifically for shooting at the turn of the last
century, offering a unique and special habitat for game
and wildlife alike.
"Right up on the downs is a charming little shooting-box,
shut in by firs to shelter it from the wind but giving
a view from its wide-opened windows right over the rich
valley of the Frome, up past the wooded heights of Bradford
Peveril, away to the heath-land where Hardy's monument
looks defiance towards the sea. It is a stiff climb to
this resting-place but never did its well-filled cupboard
fail to reward the thirsty sportsman, though once the
keys left behind suggested one of the minor tragedies
of life until a strong arm broke down the opposition of
mere wood."
Our Shooting lodge as discribed in the last
century has been expanded to accomodate a complete set
of guns, their guests and the several more beside around
a huge circular table, made from some of the Estate Elm
lost to Dutch Elm disease.
A number of shoot days are sold in addition to family
guests, with some of our teams have been returning for
over 30 years.
The shoot is included in Brian Martin's "Great Shoots"
Book, selected as one of the 50 'Premier Sporting Estates'
in the U.K. alongside some of the best known, and most respected
in the country.
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