Country pursuits: the best shooting estates on the market

Otterington Hall, South Otterington, North Yorkshire. A Grade II-listed, 19th-century hall set in its own park and woodland with a small family shoot, located close to some of the finest grouse moors in the country. 9 beds, 5 baths, 3 receps, 3-bed annexe, two 2-bed cottages, 1-bed cottage, agricultural buildings, outbuildings, stables, tennis court, grassland, ponds, 91.4 acres. £3.95m Strutt & Parker 01423-706771.

Cefn Parc, Brecon, Powys. A country estate on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park with a 19th-century Welsh stone-quarried house and a range of period outbuildings. The estate comes with extensive woodland and pastureland that supports a family shoot. 7 beds, 5 baths, 3 receps, conservatory, 3-bed coach house, flat, stables, agricultural barn, walled garden, 149 acres. £2.5m Knight Frank 029 2044 0151.

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The Hexton Manor Estate, Hertfordshire. A Grade-II listed, mid-18th-century manor set in walled gardens and a landscaped park that includes high pheasant shooting. 10 beds, two integral flats, six houses, converted stable block with three offices and a residential flat, farmland, trout fishing, 1,349 acres. £19m Savills 01462-768814.

Radicondoli, Siena, Italy. A medieval castle requiring some restoration with traditional hunting grounds as well as wine growers, producers and a farmhouse set on 2,000 hectares of land. Native species include boar, roe deer, fallow deer and wild mountain sheep. The castle comes with two restored villas, three restored houses, a guest house with swimming pools and 25 houses still requiring restoration. €29m Sotheby’s International Realty +39 055 0751888.

South Logiealmond, Logiealmond, Perthshire. An 1860s lodge house on an extensive highland estate with a driven pheasant and partridge shoot, grouse shooting on the grouse moor, red, roe and fallow deer stalking, and salmon and sea-trout fishing on the River Almond. The lodge has ten beds and six baths. There are also five estate houses and cottages, traditional steadings, and an in-hand livestock farm with modern farm buildings. 5,263 acres. £3.96m+ Savills 01738-445588.

The Great Bradley Estate, Withypool, Somerset. A five-bed house with views over the Barle Valley and a shoot that has been named as one of the top ten secret shoots on Exmoor, offering seven drives of partridge and pheasant. Two cottages, shoot lodge, horse-training facilities, 364 acres. £4.5m Strutt & Parker 01722-344042.

Whistlebare, Seggiebank & Little Craigow Estate, Milnathort, Kinross-shire. This estate has three duck flighting ponds and a pheasant and partridge shoot. 5 beds, 3 receps, farm with extensive hill grazing, 2-bed cottage. 577.6 acres, £2m+ Knight Frank 0131-222 9600.

Wilsham Farm, Wilsham, Countisbury, Lynton, Devon. A Grade II-listed, 17th-century house with later additions on a compact Exmoor estate with more than 70 acres of farmland, pasture and woodland offering an excellent opportunity to create a family shoot. 5 beds, 5 baths, 3 receps, breakfast kitchen, 5-bed cottage, indoor pool, stabling, farm buildings, outbuildings, 70.3 acres. £1.95m Pritchard & Company 01608-801030.

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