“A 4 Star Country Inn situated on the edge of the magnificent North Yorks Moors National Park”, and currently (as of November 2024) closed pending a major refurbishment, the Downe Arms Hotel is part of the huge Dawnay Estate run by the 12th Viscount Downe who calls Wykeham Abbey home. Wykeham supports shooting and hunting. The Wykeham Shoot is “proud to offer some of the best game shooting in North Yorkshire” (the county regularly named as the worst place in the UK for raptor persecution), and their grouse shoots on the Danby Moors “welcome visitors from the UK as well as international guests from as far afield as the Netherlands, Belgium and America”. The estate refers shooters to the Hotel for accommodation. Wykeham Abbey was reported by East Coast Yorkshire Hunt Sabs to be the venue for the opening meet of the Derwent Hunt in November 2024, whose kennels at Snainton are almost within walking distance of the Abbey. The Derwent were filmed trespassing in Chafer Wood, a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust nature reserve, by Helmsley Monitors in February 2024.
The Downe Arms Hotel (N Yorks)
Links to further information
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East Yorkshire Coast Hunt Sabs: Derwent Hunt, opening meet (Facebook, November 2024)
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Protect the Wild: CAUGHT: Derwent Hunt filmed trespassing on nature reserve (February 2024)
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