According to its website, Thorney Lakes is quite the site! “Reconnect with Nature: The Ultimate Escape for Camping, Caravanning & Fishing” it shouts over a large image of a Kingfisher. These folks must strongly support wildlife, right? So why then would they host a recently-convicted fox hunt? Thorney Lakes was the venue for the Seavington Summer Horse Show. The show in question is a fundraiser for the recently-convicted Seavington Hunt, a hunt that in October 2024 was filmed blatantly killing a fox before one of its riders scooped up the body and threw the poor animal unceremoniously into a nearby stream, and the same hunt from which on 8 May 2025 Huntsman Duncan Cinnamond [the show is organised by the Seavington Hunt’s Billie-Ann Cinnamond] plead guilty to illegal fox hunting. Naive, hypocritical, or just pro-hunt? Whatever the reason, Thorney Lakes is not somewhere we’d be happy to pitch our tent…
Thorney Lakes Caravan and Camping (Somerset)
Links to more information
- Protect the Wild: Duncan Cinnamond, huntsman of the Seavington Hunt plead guilty to illegal fox hunting (June 2025)
- Two Counties Hunt Sabs: Seavington opening meet – Drimpton. (GRAPHIC VIDEO FOOTAGE) (Facebook, October 2024)
- Protect the Wild: ‘Traumatising’: Gruesome footage shows Seavington Hunt tearing up fox (October 2004)
- Protect the Wild: What is a bagged fox? Video shows group of terriermen associated with the Seavington Hunt (December 2022)
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