04 PLANTATIONS IN GLOSSOP PARISH. 



wood, and in that course of time have been 

 replanted and filled up in various places. 

 Both of these are sites and with aspects which, 

 had they been planted and treated in accord- 

 ance with my doctrines, would have contained 

 some heavy unpruned timber, ash and sy- 

 camore, with firs interspersed for variety and 

 ornament, in a progressive growth on their 

 coming into the possession of their present 

 noble owner. The Chunal Moor Plantation, 

 containing seventy statute acres, was planted 

 with larch and Scotch firs subsequently to 

 1799, soon after the late Matthew Ellison, 

 Esq., succeeded Mr. Calvert in the agency of 

 these estates, on whose accession and resi- 

 dence with his family at the Hall in 1799, 

 the boundaries were perambulated between 

 the Glossop Dale and Longden Dale estates, 

 at which the present Michael Ellison, Esq., of 

 Sheffield, was present, and who, with my rela- 

 tive James Newton, Esq., of Cheadle Heath, 

 near Stockport, Chairman of the County 

 Bench of Magistrates for that division, and 



