Perhaps it’s the short drive in the back of the estate’s Land Rover with your luggage through the beech woods or the 71 steps that take you down to the entrance of the 19th-century boathouse that make you feel as though you’ve unearthed somewhere sec

Hallin Fell: For fine views with little effort try Hallin Fell (1,271 feet), near Howtown, Ullswater. You cannot get lost on the short, clear track up its rounded cone. Helvellyn: Helvellyn (3,118 feet), via the famous rocky ridge called ‘Striding Ed

DIAMONDS may well be forever but our enduring appreciation of the softer, more subtle pearl is quite extraordinary. Pliny the Elder was unequivocal: “The topmost rank among all things of price is held by pearls.” That said, he apparently came to deri

ART CAN be exciting, and bronze and silver sculptor Ian Greensitt’s experiences would make a great British heist movie. He describes how a gang carried out a raid on one of his favourite foundries where many of his pieces were in various stages of co

The furniture, colours and kit to recreate that inimitable Field style. Sporting artist Daniel Crane’s work has been converted into fabulous British-made place mats by his endlessly creative wife, Ali. The border is available in monochrome or gloriou

SINCE its inception The Field has always navigated a path between tradition and breaking new ground; never more so this year with our first ever Field Junior. And so Artemis seemed the perfect title for the latest iteration of our dedicated supplemen

SOME 200 women attended two events hosted by Wilde & Glorious at Purdey at The Royal Berkshire Shooting School and Grimsthorpe Estate Shooting Ground this summer, raising £1,300 for breast cancer charity Coppafeel. Ladies of all skill levels took par

On 4 September two legends of the conservation and wildlife management world will come together to speak at Women Who Work in Fieldsports’ (WWWF) In Conversation event. Teresa Dent from the GWCT and Tiggy Pettifer of the Atlantic Salmon Trust (AST),

NEARLY 20 years ago, on that dreadful February in 2005 when the Hunting Act was enacted, many thought that hunting with hounds had little time to last. However, the hunting community adapted to work within the new law and trail hunting, alongside exe

IT IS FREQUENTLY the case that firearms associated with significant historical figures feature lavish decorations representative of their owners’ standing. Exotic materials, detailed engravings and even customised escutcheons bearing coats of arms or

Send queries to Rosie Macdonald, Country Queries Editor, The Field, Future Publishing PLC, 121-141 Westbourne Terrace, London W2 6JR. For more, visit: thefield.co.uk Email [email protected] Follow Rosie on Instagram @dizzy_m Q I’m a

Dear Freddie, YOU TELL me that you were fascinated watching the falconry at The Game Fair, and ask for information about this noble art. Falconry is one of the fastest-growing country pursuits, with 25,000 people (5,000 of whom hunt with hawks) invol

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LAST NIGHT I dreamt I went to Yattendon. Olympic double trap gold medallist Richard Faulds was loading. The shoot lodge was a perfect 1930s Arts and Crafts building. The birds flew beautifully against a perfect grey sky with exactly the right amount

Foxdenton Northamptonshire, Herefordshire and Kent damsons; deliciously jammy.  Price £27.50 for 70cl foxdentonestate.co.uk Gin In A Tin Super-smooth gin made from wild English sloes.  Price £35 for 50cl gininatin.co.uk Silent Pool Traditional junip

SHOOTING as the only woman in the line in the 1980s, one of the regular amusements of the day was being helped over a barbed-wire fence by a charming if elderly retired colonel or sometimes even a peer of the realm, who would then proceed to get hims

BEAGLING may have been overshadowed by other fieldsports for the past 200 years but its loyal band of enthusiasts can trace kindred spirits from the hunting manuals of medieval England right back into antiquity. Take Xenophon’s fourth-century BC acco

Conch pearls: Though known to the Incas, conch pearls didn’t become big jewellery news until much later. Rare and expensive, these pearls are not easily cultured and do not occur naturally as readily as others, perhaps because irritants are less like

‘I KNOW no physical well-being so perfect as that enjoyed by the mountaineer,’ said John Buchan. He was right. The mountains need not be Alps or Himalayas; most of the benign sensations, and fewer risks, are available in the modest hills of Britain.

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WITH THE PRE-ELECTION fears surrounding impending wealth redistribution grabbing broad-sheet headlines, I asked Expert Nick if this would adversely affect auction prices. “No,” was his unequivocal answer. He’s seen governments come and go over the de

Some 2,600 children from 75 schools took to the moor over five days in July to learn more about the upland ecosystem and its flora and fauna as part of BASC’s Let’s Learn Moor initiative. The children learnt about the gamekeepers, farmers and emergen

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DIFFICULT though it may be to believe, just a couple of centuries ago the grey partridge was abundant and much the most important sporting bird in Britain. During his long career, the redoubtable 19th-century sportsman Colonel Peter Hawker shot no fe

YOU WOULD have to be exceptionally sheltered, incurious or teetotal not to have tried an English wine these days. In just a couple of decades our efforts have gone from national joke, and the preserve of those eccentric hobbyists this country has lon

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DAVID Howden is regarded by many as the insurance world’s answer to Richard Branson. His dynamism has shaped Howden, the insurance company he helped found 30 years ago, into the empire it is today. However, it’s not the likes of Necker Island and tak

ONE OF the best places in the bustling hubbub of London for a moment of quiet reflection is Room 34 of the National Gallery. Right in the middle of it hangs Whistlejacket, George Stubbs’ three-metre-tall portrait of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marq

IMAGINE the scene. It is a crisp autumn morning on a 150-bird day. The horn has sounded for the end of the first drive. You are standing pegged at number four and counted two pheasants down behind you. Another jinked in the air, wing tipped, but you