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This
site
is
dedicated
to
the
memory
of
Robert
Dixon
of
Rooking
Patterdale
who,
on
the
morning
of
27th
November
1856,
left
home
to
follow
the
Patterdale
Foxhounds
and
never
returned.
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"Recently
I
was
told
that
95%
of
Lakeland
was
unexplored
in
an
Archaeological
sense.
With
the
abolition
of
Fox
Hunting
in
2005
there
was
a
slight
chance
that
places
and
structure(s)
associated
with
fox
hunting
would
in
the
fullness
of
time
join
them,
lost
in
time
and
memory.
"It
was
with
this
in
mind
that
I
began
to
compile
material
for
this
site.
It
is
NOT
my
intention
to
glorify
or
be
used
as
propaganda
for
or
against
hunting,
but
simply
to
record
associations
with
a
'sport'
traditional
to
Lakeland
for
over
300
years.
"I
am
a
native
Lakelander
with
roots
going
back
to
1700,
the
4th
generation
to
follow
hounds,
with
ancestors
who
stood
on
the
cold
tops
at
dawn,
moved
the
heavy
lakeland
stone
to
free
trapped
terriers
and
also
'carried
the
horn'
on
occasions.
I
hope
this
site
is
of
interest
to
you.
Hunting
will
not
come
back
in
the
foreseeable
future,
perhaps
not
at
all,
but
for
three
hundred
years
hunting
and
the
church
were
the
central
thread
to
many
communities.
This
is
a
part
of
the
story." |