be referred the introduction of
tramways by two companies, designated "The Severn and Wye Railway
Company," and "The Bullo Pill Company." The road belonging to the former
of them traverses the western valley of the Forest from Lydney to
Lydbrook, a distance of fourteen miles, and the latter the eastern, but
both communicating with the Severn, although at points six miles apart.
The licence for the line ascending from Bullo Pill describes it as
designed to extend up to the Churchway engine, seven miles off. It was
constructed under a private Act obtained by Sir James Jelf and his
partners.

In the course of the next year, _i.e._ 1810, the Enclosure Commissioners
authorized the construction of the following five plantations:--

A. R. P.
Barn Hill, 353 2 3 near Coleford.
containing
Serridge 387 3 24 ,, Lydbrook.
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Beechen 308 2 36 ,, Serridge.
Hurst ,,
Haywood ,, 407 1 34 ,, Abbenhall.
Holly Hill 41 0 38 ,, Cinderford.
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1498 3 15

The planting of them was intrusted to Mr. Driver, upon his own plan,
which was to dig holes four feet apart every way, or 2,722 in an acre,
and to plant an acorn in every hole but the tenth, in it substituting an
oak-tree of five years old. The holes for the acorns were dug fifteen
inches square and nine inches deep; but those for the young trees were
made eighteen inches square and twelve inches deep. The acorns cost 8s.
per 1,000, and the trees 70s. per 1,000. One tree out of every 100 was a
five years old Spanish chesnut. So that planting the enclosures in this
way cost about 3 pounds 15s. per acre, and the seedlings about 4 pounds
5s., which Mr. Driver was to mend over, and to keep the plants good for
three years. The fences were to consist of a bank five feet high, with a
row of French furze at the top and bottom, or where impracticable a dry
wall instead. The most flourishing timber in the Forest at this period
appears to have been that growing on Church Hill, averaging 73 trees to
the acre, each tree containing 58 feet of timber. The Severn and Wye
Tramway, commenced last year, was extended in this, with the addition of
a line