Cranford Hall is a wedding venue who says that “We only host a select number of weddings each year and every event is a one off. We believe that your unique style and personality should shine through and your event should be about you, your tastes, your budgets and your style.” That may be true when it comes to weddings but when it comes to hosting in general, Cranford appears to be far less picky. We’ve been informed that Cranford not only offers their grounds as a meet for the Pytchley with Woodland Hunt (see the attached meet card and 08 February 2023), but that owners rented out a barn on their land to Impex, the notorious animal couriers who take dogs and monkeys to contract testing labs (Impex was apparently given notice when outed in August 2024 by Free the MBR Beagles, an activist group working to empty the beagle cages at the notorious Marshall Bioresources facility in Wyton, Cambridgeshire, just a 50-minute drive to the east). The Cranford Estate of which the Hall is a part also operates a shoot. Under ‘Farming Operations‘, Cranford discusses the measures being taken to increase biodiversity – all of which sound notably like ‘greenwashing’ when they then use a photograph of a Grey Partridge next to a paragraph that reads “We spread special bird mix around the estate. This maintains good populations of finches, sparrows and yellow hammers [sic], as well as small mammals”, use a picture of an individual shooting alongside “Providing game covers and feed areas for game birds successfully enhances our overall conservation policy”, and advertise on GunsOnPegs saying “All of these activities create perfect conditions for game birds to breed chicks and we see a large number of wild clutches of partridge and pheasant” before offering those same birds to shooters by saying that “We aim to shoot 6 drives during the day, shooting 4 drvies [sic] in the morning before lunch and then 2 or 3 more afterwards.” Potential wedding parties whose tastes don’t coincide with Cranford’s support for hunting and shooting may wish to take note…
Cranford Hall (Northants)
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