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The public has been encouraged to hug big trees in their area to get a measure of their size and report their findings to Natural England or another veteran tree organization. 19th-century maps are also being used to find old trees in places such as Cambridgeshire. [3]
Robin Hood's Larder (also known as the Butcher's Oak, the Slaughter Tree and the Shambles Oak) was a veteran tree in Sherwood Forest that measured 24 feet (7.3 m) in circumference. The tree had long been hollow and is reputed to have been used by the legendary outlaw Robin Hood and others as a larder for poached meat. It was badly burnt by fire ...
Estimating the maximum age of veteran trees is very challenging, especially in this case, with the damage the tree had sustained over the years; but 350–400 years was seen as most likely (making it the oldest tree in the East End), [5] [9] [7] with even older estimates, such as those linking the tree to Bonner, also plausible.
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The Midland Oak is an oak tree that grows in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, near the Lillington boundary, at the junction of Lillington Road and Lillington Avenue. A plaque nearby unveiled in 1988 states that the old tree, the original centuries old Midland Oak [ 1 ] was reputed to mark the centre of England .
Newton's Apple Tree, Woolsthorpe Manor. Metasequoia at Emmanuel College, Britain's first Dawn Redwood, in Cambridge University Botanic Garden; Great London Plane of Ely, Britain's first London Plane in Ely, Cambridgeshire; Newton's Apple Tree in Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham, Lincolnshire; Bowthorpe Oak in Bourne, Lincolnshire; Kett's Oak in ...
Queen Elizabeth's Oak was a tree in the grounds of Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, England. Elizabeth I is said to have been sitting beneath the tree when she was told of her accession to the throne in 1558. The tree was visited by Queen Victoria and Albert in 1846, and they were presented with a branch and an acorn from it as a memento. The ...
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