Sporting Activities

Yattendon offers the country sportsman an excellent range of sporting activities conveniently situated only one hour from London.

The Estate offers the usual traditional range of country pursuits with shooting, stalking, riding and walking.

The range of activities can be enjoyed either as day trips or staying locally at The Royal Oak or The Pot Kiln.

First class salmon fishing can be enjoyed on the river Naver on the Syre Estate in Scotland (which the Estate also jointly owns).

All game (venison, pheasant and partridge) is supplied to Vicar’s Game ensuring that all game is ultimately enjoyed in a diverse range of products on a very local basis.

Planning was granted in 2014 to build a rowing club on land owned by the Estate on the River Thames for Goring Gap Boat Club and this is now fully operational.

Shooting

Yattendon offers the sportsman some of Berkshire’s finest driven partridge and pheasant shooting – all within one hour’s drive of London.

The rolling downland offers exciting high partridge and the wooded valleys show more traditional high pheasant.

Shooting parties can stay locally at The Royal Oak in Yattendon or The Pot Kiln in Frilsham and also experience different styles of shoot day hospitality ranging from traditional shoot lunches in our lodge or either of these two pubs.

All game shot on the estate is used by Vicars Game butchery and farmshop. This business is based on the Estate ensuring our “food miles” are kept to an absolute minimum.

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Fishing on The River Naver

In 1988 the Estate purchased a half share in the Syre Estate by Strathnaver, Sutherland. This sporting estate owns two beats out of the six on the River Naver and the whole of Loch Naver.

To this a half share in the adjoining North Loch Naver Estate was added in 1992 and a further beat on the River Naver.

The Naver is recognised as one of Scotland’s finest salmon rivers and the Estate offers fishing to let together with two well-equipped lodges.

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Stalking

Yattendon’s mixture of woodland and farmland offer some of the best stalking opportunities in the South of England.We have a large herd of deer including Roe, Fallow and Muntjac.

Deer stalking is let to experienced local stalkers who control the deer numbers in accordance with a detailed management plan agreed with The Forestry Commission as part of the Estate’s Woodland Management Plan.

All venison is butchered and sold through Vicars Game based on the Estate at Ashampstead ensuring that “our food miles” are kept to an absolute minimum.

Fresh venison can be purchased from Vicars Game based on The Estate.