The Bucks Otter Hunt on film

Waddy Wadsworth, writing in his book A Sporting Life makes reference to several instances in the mid-1970s when the Bucks Otter Hounds were captured on hunts by television news reporters, including one by Anglian News, and another by the well known BBC reporter Fyfe Robertson, but sadly inquiries to the BBC have failed to turn up any footage of the latter.

One possible film of the Bucks Otter Hunt does exist. The details provided for this film are that it is of Otter hounds at Burghfield, Buckinghamshire, though Burghfield is actually in Berkshire. But this very likely is the Bucks Otter Hunt, as we know the river Kennet at Burghfield was hunted by them. For instance, a hunting appointments notice in the Reading Mercury of July 8th, 1911, announces that the Bucks Otter Hunt would be meeting at the river Kennet at Burghfield Bridge.

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