Welcome to the official Four Burrow Hunt website. Based
in North West Cornwall, the Four Burrow hounds not only have
a rich history, but can boast a committed following, both in
Cornwall and further afield.
It is
just over 200 years since the Four Burrow was first formed as
a Hunt Club. They take their name from the prominent landmark,
the Four Burrows (Stone Age burial grounds), at the centre of
their hunting terrain.
In those
200 years, changes have taken place that make the world of those
days quite unrecognisable to the world of today. Very few things
have in fact remained constant over the generations. A love
of Hunting with hounds is one of them. As a result, for all
of those 200 years, there have been dedicated people ready and
willing to look after the interests of the Four Burrow, both
the Hunt and the hounds.
Today's
Masters have a very difficult task. Public relations and management
raise problems which even 30 years ago barely existed. Conversely,
the problems created by distemper, the gin-trap and the great
distances ridden have little if any meaning to the modern fox-hunter.
In recent years in which the countryside has experienced more
than its fair share of setbacks, including the Hunting Bill,
the Four Burrow Hunt has remained as strong and united as the
day it was formed.
