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WOODS and plantations. 
Throckmorton estate contains many coppices of good 
oak timber. 
In many other parts are as good oak and ash as the 
kingdom produces; but the extensive forests, so very 
considerable in early times, have almost disappeared, 
and the ground is much more properly occupied with 
corn and grass ; Feckenham Forest has sunk entirely 
under the continued demands of the salt works at Droits 
wich ; these, however, having been worked for years 
with coal, that demand ceases, and there remains plenty 
of hedge-row timber, particularly elm. Some wood,. 
Jands are regularly cut in rotation, leaving young trees 
for timber at certain distances; the principal use pe¬ 
culiar to this county, to which the underwood is ap¬ 
plied, is for hop-poles, and the cordwood is burnt into 
charcoal for the iron works. 
Many of the noblemen and gentlemen’s parks and 
pleasure grounds are well stocked with timber and 
plantations. At Croome, the Earl of Coventry’s, is 
an exuberance of timber and plantations, in various 
stages of growth, disposed with such skill and taste, as 
to add picturesque beauty, and magnificent scenery, 
to a landscape not highly favoured by nature, unassisted 
by art. At Hagley, Lord Littleton’s, is a profusion 
of timber and plantation, now verging very fast to ma¬ 
turity : Hagley was an early and very successful at¬ 
tempt at modern landscape gardening, laid out in the 
former part of the last century ; in situation, variety, 
and aspect, nature had been propitious, and the timber 
has since been spared j amongst a variety of the better 
sorts, are oaks of great length and dimensions, fit for 
any use to which oak is applicable. 
Many other of the noblemen’s and gentlemen’s seats 
are sheltered, and some of them almost hidden with 
timber 
