Note 13 — Chapter V · GATLEY CARRS.

It may be well to say that this grand old tree stood by the lodge gates of Polefield Hall, a few hundred yards through the village of Holyrood, or Rooden Lane, on the right towards Besses–o’–th’–Barn. Unlike the Didsbury sycamore, which was in the prime of its princely life, the Singleton horse–chestnut had become decrepid, and during the rigour of the winters beginning in 1878 received injuries from which it could not possibly recover.