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The rotting stumps of the Cawley Nursery on the Top Park at Poynton. This parkland plantation of mainly Beech trees has been a significant landscape feature for decades but now the trees are reaching the end of their life. The loss of this landscape feature is keenly felt by those who have grown up with it. A similar fate is befalling the Round Nursery to the west closer to Towers Yard.

When I was a young lad my bedroom window looked east towards the hills and prominent on the first ridge rising from the Cheshire Plain was a plantation of beech trees known as Cawley Nursery. This stood at the uppermost point of Sir George Warren's Poynton Park. Today many of the trees have fallen due to their age and the plantation is much reduced. The mound at centre right is the spoil heap of an eighteenth century coal pit.

The Round Nursery is a formal plantation of Spanish Chestnut set out to enhance the parkland belonging to Sir George Warren in Poynton during the later 18th century. The trees are now over mature and many have fallen and disappeared during the last 65 years. It is a shame that this distinctive feature will soon disappear.