Nov 7, 2018 · The first record dates back to 1825 when Richard Ward was the Licensed Victualler. During its long history it has had several names starting with the Dog and Moor Game in 1825. In 1851 Edmund Taylor changed the name to the Dog and Grouse and this remained until 1871 when Thomas Orrell changed its name to the Dog and Partridge.

The Game Act 1831 protects game birds in England and Wales. Game licences were abolished in England and Wales on 1 August 2007, as well as the need for game dealers licences, and the law changed to allow selling game, except hare, year round.

Discover historic maps of the Moor Game area in Northumberland. Maps of different years, series and scales available to browse and buy.

Analysis of census returns revealed how the numbers and locations of gamekeepers varied between and within districts over time. Several factors that might influence gamekeeper numbers were examined, and the results suggested that geology, agricultural economics, and fashion were more important influences on numbers than poaching.

This street-hawking of poached game, as far as I could ascertain from the best-informed quarters, hardly survived the first year of the legalised sale. The female hawkers of game are almost all the wives of the men so engaged, or are women living with them as their wives.

A full explaination of the laws of game for the British. 1800-1850 with notes from US experience.

First, poaching in Scotland has been omitted, because the story is different there. Secondly, certain kinds of criminal activity have been ignored, notably the trapping of deer, moor game and water-fowl. Rabbits and hares comprised perhaps two thirds of the total catch.

The earliest known use of the noun moor game is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for moor game is from 1611, in the writing of Randle Cotgrave, lexicographer.

Mar 5, 2025 · On the 5th inst. there were discovered, on the Manor of of Twitton, near Pendle-hill, by Mr. Litter's Game-keeper, of Gisburn-park, a brood of Moor game, seemingly about ten days old, which could fly about that number of yards at a time.

The "base-ball" entry: "a country game mentioned in Moor's Suffolk Words, p. 238" (see item #1823.2 above). Rounders is just "a boy's game at balls." Tut-ball is "a sort of stobball."