PLAN FOR BLACKMOOR, BRADSHOTT, AND TEMPLE WOODS. 193 



XVII. Working Plan for the Right Honourable the Earl of 

 Selborne's Blackmoor, Bradshott, and Temple Woods in 

 Hampshire. Prepared by John Nisbet, D.CEc, F.S.I. 



PART I.— SUMMARY OF FACTS UPON WHICH THE 

 PROPOSED WORKING PLAN IS BASED. 



Description of the Blackmoor, Bradshott, and 

 Temple Woods. 



Description and Situation oj Estate. — The Blackmoor and 

 Bradshott Estates and the Manor of Temple are the property 

 of the Right Honourable the Earl of Selborne, and form part of 

 the Eastern or Petersfield Division of the County of Southampton. 

 They are situated around the sources and to the north-east of the 

 Brockbridge stream, a tributary of the Rother, extending thence 

 east and north-east towards the Crown lands of Wolmer Forest. 



Configuration 'of the Ground. — The woods situated in the 

 western portion of the estates clothe the sides of hills sloping 

 towards the Brockbridge stream and its sources, while those in 

 the central part, and those stretching towards the east, are on 

 level or gently undulating ground. In altitude above sea-level 

 the lands lie mostly between 300 and 500 feet, the lowest portions 

 being in the vicinity of Wolmer Pond (276 feet), and the highest 

 near Temple Farm (534 feet). Except as regards portions of the 

 hill-sides named Temple and Curnbrooks Hangers, the soil is 

 nowhere steep enough to occasion any practical difficulty with 

 regard to sylvicultural operations. Some of the woods in the 

 western portions of the estates are well sheltered, but the great 

 majority of them are rather freely exposed to the action of wind. 



Geological Formation. — The estates are situated on the Cre- 

 taceous formation. Towards the western end of the estates the 

 Upper Greensand (Malm) runs in a broad band from north to 

 south. To the east of this a narrower belt of Gault Clay runs 

 also from north to south, while the whole of the eastern ljortion 

 of the estates consists of the Lower Greensand. The Upper 

 Greensand yields soils of loamy clays and clayey loams of con- 

 siderable fertility, and the Gault loamy and stiff clays and clayey 

 loams, while the Lower Greensand soils are sands often charac- 

 terised by great depth, and sometimes apparently possessing a 



