We’ve searched out a number of the best pheasant shoots around that will welcome shooters from September, with social distancing measures in place. Tregoyd, Powys If you like the challenge of tricky birds on a variety of terrain then this shoot is one you should visit. Situated to the south…
Shooting in Yorkshire
Hotels in Yorkshire for shooting parties
From gun cleaning and kennelling to a comfortable bed and a strong selection of local produce on the menu, there are myriad things that shooting parties want when seeking hotel accommodation ahead of or after a day in the field. Here’s our list of hotels in Yorkshire for shooting parties.…
10 of the best hotels with shooting, clayshooting and deer stalking in England and Wales
Sporting hotels: Looking for a good sporting hotel? Here is a list of the best.
Grouse shooting is good for business
Grouse shooting in North Yorkshire is expected to contribute more than £100,000 to hotels, restaurants and pubs throughout this season. Nine estates alone surveyed by the Nidderdale Moorland Group will be hosting 150 driven shoot days over the next four months and it is estimated that this will result in…
White Swan Inn Pickering review
Generally speaking, a close proximity to the shoot, gun storage, drying room, kennels, good fare and a comfortable bed are the first things I look for when reviewing sporting hotels. I’d now like to throw another one into the ring: the ability to remain undisturbed. There’s nothing sinister in that…
Nine of the UK’s top game restaurants
London Rules Just around the corner from Covent Garden, London’s oldest restaurant, which opened in 1798, is the place to go if you have a budget to throw out of the window and an appetite for game to satisfy. With links to an estate in the Pennines, where staff go to…
Gameshooting in the UK – a guide
Find game shooting in the UK! This guide is here to help you find available game shooting around the country. Counties listed alphabetically.
Newburgh Priory: Mixed game shooting in North Yorkshire
Gaze across the lake to the ancient stately home during a duck drive and ponder the possibility that Oliver Cromwell’s head could be buried in one of its walls, planted there by his daughter, Mary. She reputedly retrieved the skull after her father had been posthumously hung, drawn and quartered…
Grinkle Park, pheasant shooting from North Yorkshire
Set some 14 miles from the coastal town of Whitby, Grinkle Park is billed as one of North Yorkshire’s premier shooting destinations and rumoured to be the only commercial shooting estate with an integrated hotel in the country. The estate, which pre-dates the Industrial Revolution, is the former home of…
Burton Constable shoot, pheasant shooting in East Yorkshire
Bakers A. Voase & A. Jones of Preston, East Yorkshire, make the kind of sausage rolls that made your eyes bulge as a child. I used to think I was the only one who hadn’t grown out of this kind of gluttony until I saw the faces of the Burton…
Top 10 game shoots in Yorkshire
The vast county of Yorkshire with its varied landscape contains hundreds of good shoots so this list represents just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to driven shooting in the white rose county. Bolton Abbey This 30,000-acre plus sporting playground on the banks of the Wharfe is owned…
What’s the best clayshooting ground in Yorkshire?
Yorkshire is one of those parts of the UK blessed with more than its share of seriously high-bird shoots. Turn west off the A1 and the gorgeous Dales butting up against Cumbria and Lancashire are paved with them. Head east and the equally beautiful North Yorkshire moors are ringed with…
Shooting businesses in Yorkshire
There is more to Yorkshire’s sporting heritage than grouse moors, high pheasants, beautiful scenery and pulling the trigger. Scores of shooting businesses make the shoot days tick and here’s a selection… Shooting businesses – food and drink Yorkshire Game If you’ve bought game that originated from estates in Yorkshire then…
Is Yorkshire the ultimate fieldsports county?
Glorious grouse Let us start with the grouse. Ripley, Danby, Bolton Abbey, Dallowgill and almost anything with dale or moor or gill in the name will do. The moors in Yorkshire might not have the Celtic romance of the Highlands but they have a cracking population of grouse with less…
Game shooting from Ganton, Yorkshire
The Wolds of Yorkshire is a distinctive landscape – topographically unique in fact. The meandering dry valleys and rolling hills of the most northerly chalk downs in Europe give the whole area a strong identity. You’d be forgiven for thinking the plethora of deep valleys with perfectly flat bottoms, so…
The White Swan Inn Pickering review
As an enthusiastic Yorkshire-phile, I was really looking forward to seeing Pickering, a small market town I regularly pass through but have only once had the opportunity to spend longer than a gear change in. With the North York Moors on the doorstep, Pickering’s various establishments are well used to…
Langtoft: Game shooting in East Yorkshire
Langtoft: A pocket of the Yorkshire Wolds wherein lies a small shoot which shares much in common with its larger neighbours like Warter Priory.
Bolton Hall: Grouse shooting in North Yorkshire
Bolton Hall: This prestigious North Yorkshire moor enjoyed another superb grouse shooting season last year.
Mulgrave: Game shooting in North Yorkshire
Mulgrave: With spectacular shoreline sport, beautiful scenery and top-notch hospitality, Mulgrave is one of the UK’s finest shoots.
Warter Priory: Game shooting in East Yorkshire
Warter Priory: A new chapter is being written at the Warter Priory game shoot thanks to an enthusiastic owner, hardworking headkeeper and his loyal team behind the scenes.