PLANTATIONS IN GLOSSOP PARISH. 83 



Clough Plantation was formed in part and 

 principally by my predecessors, and I made ad- 

 ditions to it for shelter on westerly, northerly, 

 and easterly sides, about forty years ago. The 

 rest of the plantations, completed about the 

 same time, were so placed as to afford bar- 

 riers against the storms of wind, hail, and 

 rain which beset estates so exposed to the 

 north and west as the farms in this township 

 are. On the east it is otherwise. Ollersett 

 Moor and Ollersett Pieces, the property of 

 Miss Dewsnap, rising towards the east and 

 sloping to the west, form a natural barrier 

 against the dry east winds, or " Kinder winds," 

 which are so prevalent, and for so many as 

 six weeks continuously not unfrequently, in 

 the early part of the spring, in North Derby- 

 shire. 



The plantations on the Glossop Dale es- 

 tates are the " Castle Hill and Banks Plan- 

 tations," and were planted previously to 1799 

 with firs and a very small proportion of hard- 



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