80 PLANTATIONS IN GLOSSOP PARISH. 



dener and planter from the commencement of 

 the alterations and additions which he has so 

 judiciously executed at this his family resi- 

 dence and estate. Although ornament must 

 have been in a great measure an object with 

 him in his operations and in his choice of 

 his timber trees, especially near the hall and 

 in the adjacent park enclosures, still he has 

 not neglected the main chance (if I may so 

 express it), for his covers and plantations 

 abound with healthy oak and sycamore tim- 

 ber, which will doubtless be of great value, 

 in due course of time, to his successors. 



Lord Egerton of Tatton's plantations are 

 on Mellor Moor, containing 22 a. Sr. 25p., 

 statute measure, which was planted nearly 

 sixty years ago, on land then covered with 

 heather, chiefly with larch and Scotch and 

 spruce fir. They have been thinned during 

 successive years, and those which remain have 

 evidently ceased to grow, and are about to 

 be felled and sold, and the ground when 



