From a private island with deer stalking and trout fishing in the Outer Hebrides, to a villa with wild-boar hunting rights in Tuscany.
The Agglethorpe Estate, Middleham, North Yorkshire. A Grade II-listed hall with three let farms with 440 acres, currently let providing £24,000 p/a. Sixty acres of woods for a shoot are let under licence until 2014. There are riparian rights on the River Cover. Gamekeeper's house available separately. 500 acres total. £1.75m Carter Jonas 01423-523423.
Gelli Gynan Estate, Mold, Denbighshire. A 19th-century, Grade-II listed hall with 776 acres of sporting rights for a high pheasant shoot. 8 beds, 5 baths, 4 receps, cellars, 2-bed cottage, indoor pool with gym, Jacuzzi, orangery, stable block, 82 acres, sporting rights over further 694 acres. £3m+ Savills 01952-239500.
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Graffham Court, West Sussex. A 19th-century, seven-bed house in the South Downs National Park. The grounds include landscaped gardens, a polo pitch and woodland that allows for a family shoot. 3-bed house, 2-bed house, stables, pool, paddocks, all-weather mange, 132 acres. £6.95m Sotheby's International Realty 01932-860537.
Great Durnford Estate, Wiltshire. A Grade II-listed, nine-bed, 18th-century manor on a mixed sporting estate in the Woodford Valley. Farmland and woods allow for pheasant and partridge shoots and it has almost two and a half miles of chalk stream fishing on the River Avon. 10 estate houses and cottages, farm buildings, famland let on a variety of tenancies, 1,741 acres. £27m Savills 01722-426810.
Hoscote Estate, Roberton, Roxburghshire. An 1850s nine-bed manor on an agricultural and sporting estate, with an informal pheasant shoot, roe deer stalking, duck flighting and brown trout fishing rights on Borthwick water. 5 cottages, outbuildings, livestock farm, 480 acres. £2.95m+ Strutt & Parker 0131-226 2500.
The Island of Wiay, South Uist, Outer Hebrides. A private island around half a mile off the east coast of Benbecula. It has planning permission to renovate the original crofter's cottage and sporting rights for deer stalking, woodcock shooting and trout fishing. 970 acres. £500,000+ Bell Ingram 01738-621121.
The Mynde Park Estate, Much Dewchurch, Herefordshire. A Grade I-listed manor on an agricultural and sporting estate. 12 beds, 4 receps, flat, estate office, swimming pool, tennis court, entrance lodge, secondary house, 6 cottages, high pheasant and partridge shoot, 1,180 acres. £15m Knight Frank 01432-273087.
Villa San Paolo, Castello di Reschio, Tuscany, Italy. A property on the private Castello di Reschio estate, spread over 2,700 acres of land on the Tuscan/Umbrian borders. It includes the right to hunt different deer and wild boar according to the seasons. 5 beds, 5 baths, 2 receps, bar, chapel, 1-bed cottage, swimming pool, guest bed suite. £8.4m Knight Frank 020-7629 8171.
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