The Royal Rock Beagles was a pack of beagles founded at Rock Ferry in 1845.[1] The pack was used to hunt hare in the Wirral and subsequently in Wales as the character of the Cheshire countryside changed.[2] It was for a long time the oldest beagle pack in the UK but ceased to hunt in 2015.[2]
References
^Nathaniel Caine (1895), History of the Royal Rock Beagle Hunt
^ ab"Horn sounds for final time at historic pack", Daily Post, Conwy, 9 April 2015
See also
List of beagle, harrier and basset packs of the United Kingdom