The Shooting Gazette Magazine 
September 2010
The Shooting Gazette has included a detailed review of the Wrackleford Game Shoot, Dorset in their September 2010 edition.  It was this magazine which included us in their list of top twenty shoots in the UK, but this article covers a mixed pheasant and partridge shoot day from start to finish, including map detail of drives

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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country - "The Sporting Estate"

From 1800, the remote, bleak, cold country hall or mansion, complete with its shivering, long-faced hounds was given a makeover - often acquired with new money, it became a place for ladies and gentlemen from the city to congregate and socialise. The country estate was a fantastic place to spend time together, to network, show off your political connections, along with the fine crystal and bespoke china.

It was the heyday of Victorian foxhunting, with increasing numbers of visitors flocking from all over Britain and overseas to hunt in the Shires that were a "sea of grass" at that time.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert began regular visits to Balmoral from 1848 and grouse shooting became a passion for the newly wealthy. Their son Edward Albert, actually bought Sandringham to develop drive shooting.a pleasure the chubby king could enjoy sitting down.

This programme explores how field sports changed the appearance of the countryside and contributed to the idea of the country house as a 'seat of social and political power'.

With Lady Carnarvon at Highclere Castle and Oliver Pope at the Wrackleford Estate, Dorchester.

The Shooting Gazette
July 2009
The Shooting Gazette put together this list of Britain's best game shoots, including Wrackleford alongside some of the most famous and well known shoots in the country.

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The Field Magazine
January 2009
Robert Jarman includes Wrackleford as the ultimate pheasant shoot in his list of 20 Objects of Desire - the selection is from cars to watches.

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The Fieldsports Magazine
March 2007
The article takes a look at at the renouned shoot of Wrackleford, and what changes Oliver Pope has made having taken over from his father who had painsakingly developed the shoot throughout his life

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