From The Warminster Official Guide And Souvenir 1928 (penned by Victor Strode Manley):
Fox hunting captures the imagination of most of us as a true sport and necessity in a fair field with a chance to escape and risks on both sides. Reynard takes toll of the farmers’ poultry under cover of darkness, and only hunting will capture him. It has the advantage of good company, enjoying a glorious gallop whilst seeing much country not otherwise feasible. To see the red coats marshalling the pack and the fox terrier peeping out of a huntsman’s bag is a delight in itself. And then the hunt:- “From a find to a check, from a check to a view, From a view to a death in the morning,” provides a healthy thrill in the fresh air.
Driven out of his lair by the baying hounds, the scent is rapidly followed, there comes a check – then a view, and with hackles up, the hounds soon catch up and roll him over, unless as often happens the fox is lost entirely in a fresh covert.
Warminster is the most convenient centre for the Wylye Valley Hunt, whose Secretary is Captain Reid, Tytherington. The country is largely downland in Wilts, with a good vale country on the Somerset boundary, the area extending to the Avon Vale on the north-west, Wilton on the east and between Frome and Westbury on the south. From here it runs into the South and West Wilts Hunt, which also meets locally.
The Courtenay Tracy Otter Hounds hunt the Wylye streams and tributaries of the Salisbury Avon.