“A unique venue for a unique event…A magnificent stone barn set within the beautiful Dorset countryside…The size of the barn and surrounding grounds offers even the largest private functions.” Etc etc. As well as a wedding venue, West Hall Barn/Farm is a camping and caravanning site. Which sounds fine, but sadly West Hall also enables one of the UK’s most violent hunts, the notorious Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt (BSV), by allowing it to meet on its land. North Dorset Hunt Sabs found the BSV meeting at West Hall Farm in December 2024, and the ensuing chaos is detailed in a lengthy HIT report. How West Hall could possibly justify still supporting the BSV after a report like that, let alone all the other reports on the BSV linked to below, is anyone’s guess…
West Hall Barn/Farm (Dorset)
Links to further information
- North Dorset Hunt Sabs: ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ญ๐๐? ๐ ๐จ๐ฑ ๐๐ก๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญ (Facebook, December 2024)
- 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:ย Blackmore and Sparkford Vale hounds tear up fox in residential gardenย (November 2024)
- North Dorset Hunt Sabs:ย ๐๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ. ๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ค๐๐ย (Facebook, October 2024)
- Protect the Wild:ย Men from Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt charged with illegal huntingย (June 2024)
- Protect the Wild:ย Blackmore and Sparkford Vale hunter guilty of ABHย (April 2024)
- Protect the Wild: Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt murder or dig out foxes three times in one weekย (Sept 2023)
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