FORESTRY Locko. This beautifully undulating park of 300 acres, containing a herd of 20O fallow deer, is generally well wooded. Some fine Spanish chestnuts are perhaps its chief timber characteristic. Stanton-in-Peak. The acreage of this park is 114 ; it is the successor of an older park in much the same lofty situation, but was not enclosed on its present lines until 1800. It contains a herd of 70 black fallow deer from Chartley. Sudbury. This park of 615 acres was enclosed on its present lines in 1614. It stands on the confines of old Needwood forest on the other side of the Dove, and is well wooded throughout. It gives shelter to fallow deer, Shetland ponies, and St. Kilda sheep. Button Scarsdale. It was imparked as it now stands in the seventeenth century. The 260 acres contain about 100 fallow deer, and some black sheep from the Faroe Isles. There are several fine old oaks, and a good avenue of elm and limes. The total number of acres of wood and plantation in the county of Derby, according to the return of 4 June, 1895, is 25,760.! 1 dgricultural Statistic!, 1904, p. 34. 425 54
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