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Burton-on-Trent and Bagofc Park being comprised in 

 Needwood Forest. This Forest is^ of course, nowadays 

 all enclosed ; but many large woods remain, the inter- 

 vals being filled with light plough and rough grass — 

 with foxes abundant everywhere. Monday, as hitherto 

 employed, may be taken roughly as relating to that 

 part of the country which lies east of the main road 

 i'rom Sudbury to Lichfield — the Meynell kingdom of 

 course being understood to stop short at the river 

 Trent, where the road in question reaches it. Among 

 the leading meets for this section of the woodlands 

 are the New Inn (about six miles from Sudbury, and 

 three or four from Burton-on-Trent), Rolleston (Sir 

 Tonman Moseley^s), and Anslow Village. And the 

 woods for them are those of Rolleston, a large wood 

 called the Hen Hurst, Needwood House Coverts, 

 Brakenhurst Wood, the Hoar Cross Coverts, and the 

 various strongholds pertaining to Birkley Lodge, 

 Yoxall Lodge, and Hollybush Hall. South of these 

 again, are Wichnor Park (Mr. Levitt^s) and Danstall 

 Hall (Sir J. Hardy^s). And all but the two last- 

 named form part of the old Needwood Forest. 



East of the Trent, beyond Burton, the Meynell have 

 a strip of country adjoining the Atherstone — rough 

 but light plough, hilly and broken by coal digging, 

 but by no means bad scenting or useless for hound- 

 work. It should be observed — somewhat in falsifica- 

 tion of a previous remark — that the county of Derby- 

 shire claims this corner, which is comprised within the 

 boundary points of Calke Abbey and Melbourne on 

 the East — Hartshorn, Bretby Hall, and Lullington on 

 the south. At the two former places the Meynell 



