MEMBERSHIP FORM Since the introduction of the Hunting Act which came into force in February 2005 we have carried out activities All Subscribers will receive a newsletter with information on within the law, such as Trail Hunting and other exempted meets and social activities. It is therefore essential that the practices. Our policy of breeding a small number of membership application is completed in full. There are many puppies every year has remained unchanged as we see social events some of which are fund raisers. These subsidise the new Act as a temporary situation. the subscriptions, thus enabling the hunt to keep rates at a We are very fortunate to receive the continued support reasonable level. of our farmers and landowners and we have noticed Please refer to rates overleaf: CRESSELLY HUNT increased numbers of riders and foot followers hunting Please pay by BACS to: with us recently. Cresselly Hunt Finance Account: Sort Code: 40-36-24 A/C No.: 11377183 or is the westernmost peninsular The Master is responsible for the running of the country. Please enclose cheque for £...... made payable to the Cresselly of South . The southern part of the He is assisted by the Hunt Committee who together with Hunt county which forms the Hunt Country is sub committees organise all fundraising both through (Please complete in capitals) bounded by the sea on the south and west, by the deep inlet of and by the subscriptions and Hunt functions and events. Title: First Name: Surname: A40 on the north, and on the east just beyond the county boundary with Carmarthenshire. 2020 Social Events Title: First Name: Surname: May 24th Hunt Show Minnis Pitts June 4th Dressage Minnis Pitts Address: June 13th Garden Party Minnis Pitts July 9th Dressage Minnis Pitts July 20th Lunch on Lawn TBC Cresselly House Aug 2nd Strawberry Tea Trevayne Farm Aug 9th Bike Ride The Kennels Post Code: Aug 14th Family Frolics Cresswell Quay Aug 31s Country Fayre Cresselly House Telephone Sep TBC Clay Shoot Sep 19th Motor Treasure Hunt Cresselly Stable Yard Sep 26th Pudding & Gin TBC E-mail: Oct 3rd Hunt Breakfast Cresswell Quay Oct 11th Sunday Lunch Village Hall Subscription Category:(see overleaf) Oct 31st Fancy Dress Halloween Ride Cresswell Quay Nov 7th Opening Meet Cresselly House The country consists mainly of small grassland Signed: Nov 21st Hunt Ball TBC pastures and woodland. Dairy and sheep Nov 23rd Hunt Quiz Brewery farmers and smallholdings make up the rural Dec 5th Auction of Promises Cresselly House Please send your membership application to the Hon. Secretary: scene, punctuated by deep wooded valleys. Dec 11th Carols Supper Cresselly YFC Mrs Sue Brace The southern part of the County of Pembroke Hound Parades at Lamphey, County, Martletwy Minnis Pitts was colonised by the Normans and Flemings Shows Cresselly at the expense of the native Welsh and the area became known as ‘Little England beyond www.cressellyhunt.com SA68 0SJ Wales’ www.cressellyhunt.com Membership Rates

All subscriptions are annual and can be paid from May 1st 2020. All subscribers will receive a badge which must be worn at all times. The Hunt dates from the 18th century. Family Membership £740 For two hundred years hounds have Family Membership Farmer £595 hunted the peninsular that makes up Hunt Officials Riding Member £400 www.cressellyhunt.com the hunt country. For a large part of Riding Member Farmer £265 those two centuries hounds have been Point-to-Point Qualifiers £160 Master: kennelled at the Cresselly home of the Supporters’ Minimum Voting £130 H.D.R. Harrison-Allen Allen family. Under 18 Years Old £85 01646 651992 Pony Club Members (under 18) £75 [email protected] It is recorded that John Bartlett Allen Students over 18 yrs. £165 Visitor’s Cap £45 had a pack there in 1789. But for a few Farmer’s (within the country) Cap £30 breaks, notably between 1888 and 1893, Adjacent Hunt Cap £30 Chairman when the Mastership passed to Colonel Friends £50 Chris Pattison-Dick Lort Phillips of Lawrenny, and between 1929 and 1933, when Lord Merthyr and 01646 651490 his daughter The Hon Anne Lewis, were [email protected] in command, hounds have remained at Cresselly, and are still there today. Hon. Secretary A distinguished squire of Cresselly, Henry Sue Brace Seymour Allen, famous for climbing to 01646 651490 bed on a rope, hunted the country at [email protected] his own expense, as had his forbears, during which time the Hunt was known as Mr. Seymour Allen’s Hounds. It remained a private pack until 1929 when Hon. Treasurer it reverted to the South Pembrokeshire, a Margaret Griffiths subscription pack. 01437 731339 [email protected] In order to avoid confusion with our good neighbours the Pembrokeshire Hunt the Huntsman hunt reverted to it’s original name, the Simon Jones Cresselly Hunt in May 2019 01646 651214 [email protected]