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Parish of Whitekirk & Tynninghame

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78 - Binning Wood

"The estate is famed in the east of Scotland for the extent
and singular beauty of its woods and its holly hedges. Upward
of 800 acres of it wave with trees,chiefly of the various hard wood
species, and arranged in the most tasteful forms of forest. Thomas
the 6th Earl of Haddington, instigated by his lady, the sister of the 1st
Earl of Hopetoun, commenced the planting operation on a great
scale about the commencement of the 18th Century; and must, in
reference to their date and their influence, and to the efforts which he
used to provoke imitations of his example, be regarded as the orginator
of the thousands of fine examples of modern plantations which now
so generally beautifying Scotland. His first exploit was to plant
Binning Wood, a forest if 300 Scottish acres, over the whole face
of what was then a moorish common called Tynninghame Moor
The trees are are arranged radii or avenues diverging from 3
Centres and affording extensive and beautiful walks and rides."
Fullarton's Gazetteer of Scotland Vol [Volume] II