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PLANTATIONS IN GLOSSOP PARISH. 



THE plantations in this parish are chiefly 

 those which belong to Lord Egerton of 

 Tatton, in the townships of Mellor and 

 Whitle ; those on the Ollersett estates, Lord 

 Edward Howard's Glossop Dale demesnes; 

 and the several plantations on slopes, in dells 

 and dingles, belonging to John White, Esq., 

 at Park Hall. Few landowners of North 

 Derbyshire have contributed more extensively, 

 or shown more taste and judgment, than Mr. 

 White, to the improving and enriching the 

 aspect and general appearance of their locali- 

 ties, and in the cultivation of their estates 

 and clothing them with wood and plantation. 

 Mr. White has been his own landscape-gar- 



