Station and airport to the lodge, every drive, every day, and home again. An 8-seat vehicle on standby, a driver who knows the estate tracks, and guns that never leave your sight.
Most teams come by train to York or fly into Manchester, Leeds Bradford or Newcastle. We collect the whole party and their kit, deliver them to the lodge or hotel, and are outside every morning when the keeper says so.
Meet and greet at the station or airport, luggage and gun slips loaded, straight to the lodge. Guns stay in your own locked slips, in the vehicle with you, at all times.
York station to Helmsley £65 · Manchester Airport to Helmsley £250
Lodge to the meet, between drives where the gun bus doesn't go, back for lunch, back out, and home. The vehicle waits with you all day.
£450 standby day · 10 hours · 80 miles included
Dinner at the Star at Harome, the Black Swan or the Feversham Arms with nobody on orange juice. Late pickups, early starts.
£2.50 a mile, £15 minimum, 20% after 22:00
While the guns are on the moor we take partners and families to Castle Howard, Whitby, York or the Dales, and bring everyone together for lunch.
Day tours from £295
North Yorkshire has more let grouse and pheasant days than anywhere in England. These are the shoots whose lodges, meets and tracks we know. We don't sell shooting; book your days with the estate or its agent and we'll do everything on the road.
| Shoot or estate | Where | Game | Days let through |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rievaulx Estate | Rievaulx, 3 miles from Helmsley | Driven pheasant, partridge, duck over 5,000 acres of deep valleys; private lodges | Darbishire, William Powell, Ian Coley |
| Snilesworth Estate | Hawnby, 20 min from Helmsley | Driven grouse on 6,500 acres; moor-edge partridge and pheasant | William Powell, Darbishire |
| Wykeham Estate (Dawnay) | Wykeham, near Scarborough | High driven pheasant and partridge across three valleys, 4,000 acres | Estate office, Wykeham |
| Danby Moors (Dawnay) | Danby, Esk valley | Driven grouse; regular US, Dutch and Belgian teams | Estate office, Wykeham |
| Bransdale, Farndale and Rosedale moors | North York Moors, 20–40 min from Helmsley | Driven grouse | Sporting agents, by the day or the week |
| Duncombe Park and the Helmsley estates | Helmsley | Pheasant and partridge in the Rye valley | Estate and agents |
| Mulgrave Estate | Lythe, near Whitby | Driven pheasant and partridge in wooded coastal valleys | Estate and agents |
| Swinton Estate | Masham, Wensleydale | Driven grouse and pheasant; hotel on the estate | Estate |
| Bolton Abbey (Devonshire) | Wharfedale | Driven grouse on Barden Moor; pheasant in the valley | Estate office |
| Castle Howard | 15 miles from York | Driven pheasant and partridge in the Howardian Hills | Estate and agents |
Sporting agents who let North Yorkshire days: William Powell Sporting, Darbishire Sporting, Ian Coley Sporting, GunsOnPegs, Dalesport. Estates and agents listed for information; Yorkshire Grand Tours is independent of all of them.
Simple rules, so the keeper and the police are both happy.
The Black Swan, the Feversham Arms, the Star Inn at Harome. Ten minutes from Rievaulx and Snilesworth, forty from the Esk valley moors.
The White Swan, the Talbot. Handy for Wykeham, the Dalby forest shoots and the eastern moors.
Egton Manor, Raithwaite, the Mulgrave estate pubs. Danby and Egton moors on the doorstep.
Swinton Park, the Devonshire Arms at Bolton Abbey, the Blue Lion at East Witton. We'll base the vehicle with you for the week.
