The Royal Rock Beagles was a pack of beagles founded at Rock Ferry in 1845.[1] The pack was used to hunt hare in the Wirrall and subsequently in Wales as the character of the Cheshire countryside changed.[2] It was for a long time the oldest beagle pack in the UK but ceased to hunt in 2015.[2]

Royal Rock Beagles
Royal Rock Beagles by John Dalby, 1845.
Hunt typeBeagling
Country United Kingdom
History
Founded1845
Disbanded2015
Hunt information
Hound breedBeagle
Hunt countryWirral Peninsula
QuarryHare

References edit

  1. ^ Nathaniel Caine (1895), History of the Royal Rock Beagle Hunt
  2. ^ a b "Horn sounds for final time at historic pack", Daily Post, Conwy, 9 April 2015

See also edit

List of beagle, harrier and basset packs of the United Kingdom