Location: Longburton, Dorset, DT9ย 5PF

Business type: Venue

Business website: www.westhallfarm.com/

Date listed: January 31, 2025

“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…

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Listing is to inform choice only. By listing a business we are not suggesting or implying that the business is acting unlawfully. We are not asking for a boycott of the business. If you wish to contact the business please do so politely. We are a non-violent organisation and making threats, intimidating or harassing individuals is never acceptable under any circumstances and may lead to prosecution.