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High jinks at Hilldrop
The Field
|August 2025
A charity shoot, country fair and auction raise £400,000 for a range of deserving causes
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GAIETY, glamping, a country fair, cocktails and a clay shoot: the Hilldrop Charity Shoot and Festival held at Hilldrop Farm in Wiltshire this May had it all and more. This glorious gathering and fundraising enterprise is the brainchild of Tim Eliot-Cohen of Hilldrop Shoot. There were a remarkable 56 teams on the starting list for the clay shooting competition. The 336 guns were transported to the six stands in a fleet of gleaming Ineos Grenadiers, with over 50,000 cartridges spent before Mark Landau and his top guns were declared
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