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The BBC has tracked fighting kennels to unlikely places in the UK – from a busy housing estate to the grounds of a stately home.

Executive producer Karen Wilson said the team travelled the "length and breadth of Ireland and the UK" before ending up in the North West, which had "stately homes and Dublin-style streets".

It may be a stately home but through the years it's been known to throw one hell of a party, especially on 4 July, America's Independence Day.

“Too soft, too stately,” a critic friend grumbled at Telluride.

It’s just a quiet drive beneath a near mile of stately cedars bedecked with strings of multicolor lights.