Castle Ashby is the ancestral home of the 7th Marquess of Northampton. It’s set in a 10,000-acre estate, part of which (and this is not referred to on the castle’s website) has been let to the Yardley Chase Shoot Syndicate for many years, Hilariously the syndicate say “we decided we would not shoot with people we didn’t like”, a choice not given to the Red listed Woodcock that the shoot specialises in: “The remainder of the season is dominated by driven pheasant and woodcock shooting in ridings but also out of managed rough areas back to the wood. In addition to syndicate shooting we offer a number of let days for driven woodcock dependent on the quality of the migration and numbers in general.” Numbers of woodcock, according to a 2023 BTO survey, are in steep decline…
Castle Ashby (Northants)
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