Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'Where we meet'

How the lodge came about
Location, location, location
Journeying to the lodge
Life in the lodge
Cooking and cuisine
Boots, guns and rods
Outbuildings and adjuncts
Customs, traditions and curiosities
Luncheon lodges

Bibliography, Further reading, References and sources
Index

About the Author

Jeremy Hobson was a gamekeeper for over thirty years and, for much of the last decade, shoot captain on a prestigious West Sussex estate. His country-based articles have appeared in most of the relevant sporting magazines, and he is the author of over thirty books, including The Shoot Lunch (978-1-84689-092-5), Success with Chickens (978-1-84689-093-2), and Sporting Lodges with David S. D. Jones (978-1-84689-168-7). David S. D. Jones is archivist and historian for the National Gamekeepers' Organisation and has written extensively on the subject of shooting and gamekeeping history over the past thirty years. He owns the Gamekeeping Photographic Archive and the David S. D. Jones Photographic Collection. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Sporting Lodges: Sanctuaries, Havens and Retreats (978-1-84689-168-7) with J. C. Jeremy Hobson and Gamekeeping: An Illustrated History (978-1-84689-189-2).

Reviews

Includes many fascinating first-hand accounts of life in the lodge then and now, and there are detailed rituals, rod rooms, game books and fishing registers. There is also a splendid section on lodges built in rather eccentric places some so remote they can be accessed only by sea!
*Land & Business*

If you're looking for something to relax with after a hard day's stalk, you won't do much better than Sporting Lodges. For those interested in the history of their sport, it provides an in-depth look at the history of the sporting lodges, complete with detailed and evocative pictures of some of the most interesting that our Nations estates great and small have to offer.

From the baronial extravagance of the Victorian highland lodge, to the modest thatched hut by the river, this is a fascinating history of sporting lodges. But it is much more; it is a social history of fieldsports looking at the way lodges transformed sport and were themselves affected by railways, roads and the huge social changes of the last century...An absorbing history and a great read.
*Shooting & Conservation Magazine*

A charming and envy-inducing history of sporting lodges in the British Isles. The subtitle says it all really; shooting lodges, bothies or fisherman's huts are sanctuaries where log fires roar, whiskey tumblers refresh and sportsmen and women forget about the concerns of the wider world. The book contains some fascinating insights into the way sporting estates were run just a few generations ago, and also covers, among other topics, travel in the golden age of steam engines and motoring and cooking. With section headlines like Private railway stations and Ghosts of those who have gone before, there are many little treasures and the authors have done a tremendous amount of research to deliver an endearing book which will entertain and tantalise in equal measures.

This is an extensive and fascinating history of the quintessential British sporting lodge. Beautifully illustrated throughout, it covers the classic and most interesting and unusual shooting, stalking, fishing and hunting lodges, bothies, huts, boxes, castles and barns. With its tales from the past and anecdotes from the present, the authors - both prolific sporting writers - have written a book which creatures a superb portrait of this wonderfully British sporting institution. A fascinating read.

The sub-title on the front cover just about sums up this book as it is "Sanctuaries, Havens and Retreats". Whatever one's sport from fishing and shooting to stalking, sooner or later people come across fishing lodges, stalking bothies or simplest shelters. Only the privileged few have access to many of these...The large number of excellent photographs, some very old, depict a life most of us can only imagine.