Pytchley

Pytchley, a village of Northamptonshire, 3 miles SW. of Kettering, whence the famous Pytchley Hunt takes name. Amongst more than twenty masters of the hunt the most noted have been Lord Althorp (afterwards Earl Spencer; master from 1808 to 1817), 'Squire' Oshaldeston (1827-34), and Mr Payne (1844-48). See FOXHUNTING; and H. O. Nethercote, The Pytchley Hunt, Past and Present (1888).