Upton Estate (Oxon)

“A family-owned estate in an area of outstanding natural beauty, straddling the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire boundary…comprising c. 2000 acres, the Estate is involved in a diverse range of rural activities from farming, wildlife conservation and woodland management.” Upton talks a very good game, referring to its Conservation and its Woodland (“carefully managed to help benefit wildlife”), but doesn’t seem to mention that it also hosts a hunt with very different ideas about wildlife: the Warwickshire, who West Mids Hunt Sabs said held their opening meet on the estate (at the Upton Viva National Hunt Stud and racing yard run by Robert Waley-Cohen) and whose fundraising Hunt Ball was held there in March 2022. Perhaps Upton Estate doesn’t know about the Community Protection Notice the Warwickshire was issued with or the fact they were charged under the Hunting Act in March 2024…though if they don’t that either shows a surprising lack of due diligence or a lack of giving a ****.