Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey
and Multi Media Mapping.

This was the first time hounds had met at the Moss Inn and was proceeded by a magnificent breakfast kindly organised by Mr Jack Wilkinson, and we were warmly welcomed by many new friends.

The shelterbelts behind the village and North Side Farm were drawn blank, as was Stanley Moss Plantation, so hounds were taken over the road to Old White Lea and quickly found in the “Cows Tail Whins”. After a couple of circuits Charlie left the covert at the west end, running towards Old White Lea Farm, and turned right-handed up the hill past Grange Farm and over the road into Stanley Moss. He then turned left-handed through the plantation and right-handed round the back of Broom Hill – as if for Dicken House, but changing his course, our pilot left Stanley Hall Farm on his left and dropped into Stanley Beck which he followed to Waterhouses. He then turned left up the Deerness Valley, almost as far as East Hedley Hope and the left-handed again leaving Stanly Hall Farm on his right and back down the Staley burn again to Waterhouses where fresh foxes meant we had to give him best. A good hunt of 6 miles as hounds ran with a 3 ½ mile point.

“BILLY ROW”