“Join us for the Royal Bath & West Show – A Great British day out for all of the family”, says the website for one of the largest ‘country’ shows in the UK. It goes on to say “The Royal Bath & West of England Society organises several significant agricultural and rural shows at the Bath & West Showground near Shepton Mallet.” Undoubtedly hugely popular, these shows attract large audiences. Little wonder then that hunts take the useful opportunity to turn up and promote themselves, typically by inviting children to ‘pat the hounds’ while NOT explaining what the purpose of hunts is or what the hounds are actually trained to do. As well as providing the venue, the Royal Bath and West Society has close connections with the notorious Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt and the Newt in Somerset Hotel which we have also featured: Sue Seager, Estate Manager of The Newt is on the Board of The Royal Bath & West of England Society; a former trustee (he resigned in July 2024), Mike Felton, is a Director of the BSV and joined its mastership in 1992.
Royal Bath & West (Somerset)
Links to more information
- Protect the Wild: Two members of notorious BSV Hunt plead guilty to obstructing sabs (March 2025)
- Protect the Wild: BSV hunt filmed trying to wrestle spade from roadworks crew (March 2025)
- Protect the Wild: Police ‘investigating’ more illegal hunting by Dorset’s notorious BSV hunt (February 2025)
- Protect the Wild: Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt ends 2024 with four days of carnage (January 2025)
- Protect the Wild: Blackmore and Sparkford Vale hounds tear up fox in residential garden (November 2024)
- North Dorset Hunt Sabs: 𝐁𝐒𝐕 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭. 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐛 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 (Facebook, October 2024)
- Protect the Wild: Men from Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt charged with illegal hunting (June 2024)
- Protect the Wild: Blackmore and Sparkford Vale hunter guilty of ABH (April 2024)
- Horse and Hound Forum: Yet again the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt bringing hunting into disrepute (March 2019)
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