THE OAK. 7 



Philips, Esq., the present owner of that pro- 

 perty. 



The Bings Wood and other adjoining es- 

 tates of Edmund Buckley, Esq., were formerly 

 distinguished for their majestic oaks and white- 

 wood timber, as was the Bugsworth Hall es- 

 tate, and especially a large extent of it, Car- 

 rington Wood, abounded with oaks of great 

 girth and dimensions. So also were the 

 steeps and cloughs still lower down, along 

 both sides of the course of the same river, 

 until it falls into the Etherow, at the Water 

 Meetings estate, on the property of John 

 Wright, Esq., of Brabins Hall, below Comp- 

 stall Bridge, especially on the estates of Peter 

 Arkwright, Esq., and formerly of the late 

 Samuel Oldknow, Esq., and the Brabins Hal] 

 woods especially, both in Marple. The shaft 

 of the great wheel placed in Mellor Mill by 

 the latter in 1790, the date of its completion, 

 was made from an oak felled on the property, 

 which bore incontestable proof of its having 



