Best wind break for garden

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I'd like to make it possible to sit out in the evening and would like some shelter from the easterly wind.

Suggestions oh wise ones?

We have a stock proof hedge primarily made up of Hawthorne that does a great job of breaking the wind, having a hedge with gaps does allow the wind to filter more than hitting a solid surface. The hedge also has privet and Holly through it and I've added beech recently to give some winter colour. Were trying to grow it higher to hide my 'delightful' neighbors so haven't trimmed it since early spring and I've realised it has a fabulous looking clematis growing through it can't wait to see it flower.
I really didn't realise you could get a climber through a hedge but I think it'll look lovely and be nicer than a standard looking hedge

I love a beech hedge. It keeps its leaves all year. They turn golden in the autumn and stay on until they are pushed off by the new leaves opening in April.
You can get red or green coloured beeches.

We planted a hornbeam hedge at the end of the garden - it's struggled because of the wind but some of it is looking ok. Half way down the garden we have an enormous beech hedge, well more s row of beech trees. Probably 8m wide, 3m deep, 4m tall. So we could do another. Do you think I could mix in a rose hedge thing (I'm not good at the types of roses)?