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The Bowthorpe Oak The trunk. Bowthorpe Oak in Manthorpe near Bourne, Lincolnshire, is a gigantic and ancient pedunculate oak in England.The tree has a circumference of about 44 feet (13 metres) and has a hollow trunk, making it the second-widest individual tree in the UK, only surpassed by the significantly older and much less-intact Marton Oak in Cheshire. [1]
The Big Belly Oak is a sessile oak tree (Quercus petraea). It is enormously fat, with a maximum girth of 11.18 metres at a height of 1.20m. [3] Its estimated volume is 40m³. [1] The oak has a large cavity in its centre, likely an effect of pollarding. In 2014, the Big Belly Oak was shortlisted for Tree of the Year in the annual competition ...
It contains a great number of wild service trees, and some ancient oak trees. [1] Restoration involves replacing conifers, formerly covering a third of the wood, with deciduous trees including field maple, hornbeam, rowan and wych elm, that provide a more varied habitat and attract previously absent species. Some areas are opened up to make ...
The Oaks of Avalon is the collective name given to a pair of ancient oak trees, Gog and Magog, that stand in Glastonbury in Somerset, South West England. The trees were named after the ancient apocalyptic figures Gog and Magog. [1] The trees are believed to have been originally part of a ceremonial avenue towards the Glastonbury Tor, the avenue ...
List of widest trees in the UK Tree name Species Girth Location References and notes Meters Feet Marton Oak: Sessile oak (Quercus petraea) 14.02–14.4 46.0–47.2 Marton, Cheshire: The Marton Oak is the current UK champion for girth, [5] although is not very well known and is at the end stage of its life. The tree split into three enormous ...
The woodlands of Bedfordshire cover 6.2% of the county. [2] Some two thirds of this (4,990 ha or 12,300 acres) is broad-leaved woodland, principally oak and ash. [3] A Woodland Trust estimate of all ancient woodland in Bedfordshire (dating back to at least the year 1600), including woods of 0.1 ha (0.25 acres) and upward suggests an area of 1,468 ha (3,630 acres). [4]
The coppices were used to provide timber, charcoal, oak bark, and small wood whilst the commons and pastureland were used for grazing and as a source of turf and firewood. Oak standards would have yielded timber for ship construction at the Royal Dockyard at Deptford, established in 1513, whilst the oak bark was taken to Bermondsey for leather ...
Kett's Oak is one of the 50 Great British Trees. The ancient oak tree ( Quercus robur ) is located at the side of the B1172 road between Wymondham and Hethersett in Norfolk, England. The tree is the traditional location where in 1549 Robert Kett and his brother William addressed a group of men in what was to become Kett's Rebellion .
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