Posts by Julia Wailes-Fairbairn

College Valley and North Northumberland Hunt and HospiceCare North Northumberland ST CUTHBERT’S RIDE Sunday 24th September 2017   7 or 10 miles across spectacular country Over 25 small optional jumps Start/Finish: near North Lyham, NE66 5RY. This is west of Belford, north of Chatton and east of Wooler. There will be signs. Start riding any…

By Frank Houghton-Brown Reproduced here by kind permission of Horse and Hound Magazine Sir Alfred Goodson was a farm student at Akeld near Wooler, with his great friend Sir Nelson Rycroft – father of the legendary hound breeder Sir Newton Rycroft – when the Border hounds streamed off the steep hillside above with their hard-pressed…